The furniture of the world : : essays in ontology and metaphysics / / edited by Guillermo Hurtado and Oscar Nudler.

• Superior document: Rodopi philosophical studies ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Hurtado, Guillermo.; Nudler, Oscar.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Rodopi philosophical studies ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Notes: International conference proceedings.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; Relativity or Aporicity of Ontology?: From Quine to Aristotle /; Paths of Ontology /; Ontology /; A Neo-Leibnitzian Ontology: Héctor-Neri Castañeda’s Theory of Guises /; Space, Time and Ontology: A Leibnizian Worldview /; Henry More’s Infinite Space and Isaac Barrow’s Adimensional Space /; The New Ontology in the wake of Newton’s and Clarke’s Natural Philosophy /; Why Truthmakers /; Truth, Ontology, and Deflationism /; World: A Tense Concept /; The Subject of Metaphysics /; Dualism and Physicalism in Contemporary Philosophy of the Mind /; Personal Identity and Ontology in P.F. Strawson: from Analytic Reception to Paul Ricœur /; Modern Political Ontology: Evolution and Revolution /; Cultural Entities /; Ontology of the Work of Art /; Borges and Authorial Intentions /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1280875402; 9786613716712; 9401207798
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Guillermo Hurtado and Oscar Nudler.

Seventeen essays make up the body of this anthology. Most of the authors are Latin Americans (although some of them work in other regions), and thus we might say that this volume is, in a very approximate sense, a showcase of recent Latin-American ontology and metaphysics. The remaining authors—Pierre Aubenque, Barry Smith, Lorenzo Peña and James Hamilton—are distinguished teachers who have had important contacts with the Latin-American philosophical community. The articles in this anthology address some of the central questions in ontology and metaphysics: the possibility of a science of being (Aubenque), the different possible approaches to ontology (Hurtado), the recent application of ontology to informatics (Smith), guise theory and its Leibnizian antecedents (Herrera), the reduction of space and time to phenomenological properties (Rodríguez Larreta), the Newtonian ontology of space and time (Benítez and Robles), the relation between truth and the so-called “truth-makers” (Rodríguez Pereyra), the ontological position of the Pyrrhonic skeptic (Junqueira Smith), the limits and difficulties of metaphysical realism (Cabanchik, Pereda), the defense of physicalist or emergentist positions regarding the mental (Pérez), the metaphysical nature of persons (Naishtat), the ontology of cultural entities (Peña), political ontology (Nudler), the relation between ontology and literature (Hamilton), the ontology of art (Tomasini). Some of the works (e.g., those Aubenque and Robles) approach the question from a historical perspective: others examine the most recent philosophical literature on the problems focalized (e.g., those by Pérez and Rodríguez Pereyra), and others offer new approaches (e.g., those of Rodríguez Larreta, Peña or Nudler) to a specific problematic area.