Ontological investigations : : an inquiry into the categories of nature, man and society / / Ingvar Johansson.
This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reality is addressed, starting out from the view that univ...
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| Superior document: | Reprint philosophy ; volume 4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Frankfurt : : Ontos Verlag,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reprint philosophy ;
v. 4. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (431 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword to the second edition
- Preface
- 1. Ontology
- 2. Irreductive Materialism
- 3. States of Affairs and Qualities
- 4. Exclusive and Inclusive Qualities
- 5. Actions and Functions
- 6. Patterns, Changes, and Pure Gestalten
- 7. Self-Sustaining Gestalten and Gestalten Causa Sui
- 8. External, Internal, and Grounded Relations
- 9. Existential Dependence
- 10. Container Space and Relational Space
- 11. Tendency
- 12. Efficient Causality
- 13. Intentionality
- 14. Nature: Parts and Wholes Without Intentionality
- 15. Man and Society: Nested Intentionality
- 16. Epistemological Positions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Appendix 1: An aphoristic summary of Ontological Investigations
- Appendix 2: Determinables as Universals
- Appendix 3: Ontologies and Concepts. Two Proposals
- Backmatter