Things, facts and events /

Things, facts and events / / edited by Jan Faye, Uwe Scheffler, and Max Urchs.

The volume deals with ontological and semantical issues concerning things, facts and events. Ontology tells us about what there is, whereas semantics provides answers to how we refer to what there is. Basic ontological categories are commonly accepted along with basic linguistic types, and linguisti...

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Superior document:Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities ; 76
TeilnehmendeR:
Scheffler, Uwe,
Faye, Jan,
Urchs, Max,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Rodopi,, [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities ; 76.
Physical Description:1 online resource (544 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Jan FAYE, Uwe SCHEFFLER and Max URCHS: philosophical Entities: An Introduction
  • Jan FAYE: Facts as truth makers
  • Johannes PERSSON: Examining the Facts
  • Uwe SCHEFFLER and Yaroslav SHRAMKO: The Logical Ontology of Negative Facts: On what is not
  • Werner STELZNER: The Impact of Negative Facts for the Imaginary Logic of N. A. Vasil'ev
  • Bo RODE MEINERTSEN: Events, Facts and Causation
  • Uwe MEIXNER: Essential Conceptions of Events
  • Pirmin STEKELER-WEITHOFER: Questions and Theses Concerning (Mental) Events and Causation
  • Erwin TEGTMEIER: Events as Facts
  • Max URCHS: Events of Episystems
  • Johanna SEIBT: The Dynamic Constitution of Things
  • Käthe TRETTIN: Tropes and Things
  • Daniel VON WACHTER: A World of Fields
  • Andreas BARTELS: Quantum Field Theory: A Case for Event Ontologies?
  • Mauro DORATO: Facts, Events, Things and the Ontology of Physics
  • Meinhard KUHLMANN: Processes as Objects of Quantum Field Theory
  • Jacek PAŒNICZEK: Objects vs. Situations
  • Arto SIITONEN: Effects or Consequences of Action
  • Paul NEEDHAM: Hot Stuff
  • Lars Bo GUNDERSEN: Goodman's Gruesome Modal Fallacy
  • Thomas MORMANN: topological Representations of Mereological Systems
  • Uwe SCHEFFLER and Marco WINKLER: Tools: Predicate Based Logical Relations between Events.

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