Fundamentals of Ontological Commitment / / Paolo Valore.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Valore, Paolo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Eide : Foundations of Ontology , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 252 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part I: The Task and Scope of Ontology --; 1. Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline --; 2. Ontology in Its Different Varieties --; 3. Logical Tools for Ontological Analysis --; 4. Mereological Tools of Ontological Analysis --; Part II: Ontological Categories --; 5. Categories as Uppermost Kinds --; 6. Categorial Realism --; 7. Modalities --; 8. Categorial Conceptualism --; 9. Parts and Wholes --; 10. Natural Kinds and Ordering Strategies --; Part III: The Nature of Existence --; 11. Non-being --; 12. Being and Existence --; 13. Ontological Commitment --; 14. Identity --; Part IV: Ontological Proofs --; 15. The Existence of God --; 16. God as an A Priori Idea --; 17. Gödel’s Proof --; Part V: Kinds of Being --; 18. Three Classical Views about Universals --; 19. The Standard Approaches to Concrete Entities --; 20. The Ontological Import of Mathematics --; 21. Elements of Social Ontology --; Relativism and Ontological Relativity --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110459036; 9783110762501; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485301
• ISSN: 2198-1841
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110459036
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paolo Valore.

Scientific literature on particular themes in ontology is extremely abundant, but it is often very hard for freshmen or sophomores to find a red thread between the various proposals.This text is an opinionated introduction, a preliminary text to research in ontology from the so called standard approach to ontological commitment, that is from the particular point of view that connects ontological questions to quantificational questions. It offers a survey of this viewpoint in ontology together with their possible applications through a broad array of examples and open problems and, at the same time, essential references to the classics of philosophy, so as to allow non-specialists to understand the terms and analysis procedures characterizing the discipline. Its result is a wide-ranging overview of the issued tackled by ontology, with a particular focus on the most relevant problems of contemporary debate (categorial taxonomies, nonexistent objects, case studies of ontological debates in specific fields of knowledge).