Ontological Commitment Revisited /

Ontological Commitment Revisited / / ed. by Jesús Padilla Gálvez.

Ontological commitment implies that each theory is supposed to specify the type of entities that form its components. Representatives of a theory share an ontological commitment in relation to the objects they refer to. There are theories that admit the existence of universals while others do not. A...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Gaffal, Margit,
García-Carpintero, Manuel,
Gibson, Arthur,
Marques, António,
Nida-Rümelin, Julian,
Padilla Gálvez, Jesús,
Simons, Peter,
Smith, Jonathan,
HerausgeberIn:
Padilla Gálvez, Jesús,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Aporia , 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (V, 159 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Ontological Commitment: An Introduction
  • Meinong’s Objectives
  • Metaphysical Aspects of Agency
  • Representation as Ontological Problem
  • Ontological Commitment and State of Affairs
  • “I know” Language-games in Wittgenstein’s Late Philosophy
  • Against Propositional Substantivism
  • Wittgenstein’s Nachlass, a Case for Practical Ontology?
  • Paradox in Ontology: Black Holes, Cosmology, Wittgenstein versus Stephen Hawking’s Claim that Philosophy is Dead
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Names
  • Subject Index

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