Categories : historical and systematic essays / / edited by Michael Gorman and Jonathan J. Sanford.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gorman, Michael, 1965-; Sanford, Jonathan J., 1974-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 41
• Physical Description: xvii, 309 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Part I: the Aristotelian tradition -- Jonathan J. Sanford, categories and metaphysics : Aristotle's science of being -- Helen Lang, Aristotle's categories "where" and "when" -- Eleonore Stump, Aquinas's metaphysics : individuation and constitution -- William McMahon, reflections on some 13th- and 14th-century views of the categories -- May Sim, categories and commensurability in Confucius and Aristotle : a response to MacIntyre -- Part II: modern approaches -- Timothy Sean Quinn, Kant : the practical categories -- Carl R. Hausman, Charles Peirce's evolutionary realism as a process -- Philosophy -- Dagfinn Follesdal, Husserl and the categories -- Newton Garver, language-games as categories : an Aristotelian theme in Wittgenstein's later thought -- Part III: normative considerations -- Michael Gorman, categories and normativity -- David Weissman, categorial form -- Part IV: epistemological and metaphysical considerations -- Mariam Thalos, distinction, judgment and discipline -- Robert Sokolowski, categorial intentions and objects -- Barry Smith, carving up reality -- C. Wesley Demarco, the generation and destruction of categories -- Jorge J.E. Gracia, are categories invented or discovered? : a response to Foucault.