The furniture of the world : : essays in ontology and metaphysics / / 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—Pier...

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Superior document:Rodopi philosophical studies ; 9
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Rodopi philosophical studies ; 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
Notes:International conference proceedings.
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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.