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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Guillermo Hurtado and Oscar Nudler -- Relativity or Aporicity of Ontology?: From Quine to Aristotle / Pierre Aubenque -- Paths of Ontology / Guillermo Hurtado -- Ontology / Barry Smith -- A Neo-Leibnitzian Ontology: Héctor-Neri Castañeda’s Theory of Guises / Alejandro Herrera Ibáñez -- Space, Time and Ontology: A Leibnizian Worldview / Juan Rodríguez Larreta -- Henry More’s Infinite Space and Isaac Barrow’s Adimensional Space / José A. Robles -- The New Ontology in the wake of Newton’s and Clarke’s Natural Philosophy / Laura Benítez -- Why Truthmakers / Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pereyra -- Truth, Ontology, and Deflationism / Plínio Junqueira Smith -- World: A Tense Concept / Carlos Pereda -- The Subject of Metaphysics / Samuel Manuel Cabanchik -- Dualism and Physicalism in Contemporary Philosophy of the Mind / Diana I. Pérez -- Personal Identity and Ontology in P.F. Strawson: from Analytic Reception to Paul Ricœur / Francisco Naishtat -- Modern Political Ontology: Evolution and Revolution / Oscar Nudler -- Cultural Entities / Lorenzo Peña -- Ontology of the Work of Art / Alejandro Tomasini Bassols -- Borges and Authorial Intentions / James Hamilton.