Studies in the Ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann / / ed. by Javier Cumpa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Addis, Laird,; Allaire, Edwin B.,; Armstrong, David M.,; Bonino, Guido,; Butchvarov, Panayot,; Cumpa, Javier,; Gadenne, Volker,; Gracia, Jorge J. E.,; Grossmann, Reinhardt,; Jesson, Greg,; Moreland, James P.,; Simons, Peter,; Symington, Paul,; Tegtmeier, Erwin,; Wilson, Fred,
• HerausgeberIn: Cumpa, Javier,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Eide : Foundations of Ontology , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)

Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians. Although he was a student of Bergmann, he influenced the development of Bergmann's metaphysics considerably. No philosopher other than Grossmann defends perception to that degree against the persistent skeptical arguments. He characterizes his epistemological positions as radical empiricism and radical realism. By realism Grossmann mainly means the view that the material things we perceive exist. It is thus also an ontological position and closely related to his empiricism. Grossmann's empiricism is radical insofar as he claims that entities of all categories are perceptible, even numbers and universals. Grossmann's universal realism advocates a theory of abstract categories against the current naturalism. He distinguishes between the world and the physical universe. The latter is the domain of science; the former is the subject of ontology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Abbreviations Of Grossmann’s Works -- Grossmann Studies -- 1. Grossmann on Relations and Intentionality -- 2. It is about Time -- 3. Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontology -- 4. One- and Two- Level Acts: Bergmann and Grossmann on Realism -- 5. Facts -- 6. What is a Universal? Main Problems of Property Theory -- 7. Dualism and the Mind-Body Trilemma -- 8. Grossmann and the Ontological Status of Categories -- 9. The Intersection of the Mind and the World: Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontology of Knowledge -- 10. Grossmann on Property-Instances and Existence: Suárez’s Way Out -- 11. Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond -- 12. Three Ontologies of the Iowa School: Categories and Composition -- 13. Some Reflections on Grossmann on the Entity Existence -- Appendixes -- Appendix I: An Unpublished Manuscript on Philosophy of Mind (1993) I. Materialism and the New Folk Philosophy -- Appendix II: A List of the Published Works of R. Grossmann -- Appendix III: A Bibliography on R. Grossmann’s Philosophy -- Bibliography