Fundamentals of Ontological Commitment / / 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 appro...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eide : Foundations of Ontology ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 252 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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