Ontological investigations : an inquiry into the categories of nature, man and society /

"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 tha...

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Autore principale: Johansson, Ingvar
Natura: Libro
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Frankfurt : [New Brunswick, NJ] : Ontos Verlag ; Distributed in North America by Transaction Books, 2004.
Edizione:[2nd ed.].
Serie:Reprint philosophy ; v. 4
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Sommario:
  • 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
  • App. 1. aphoristic summary of ontological investigations
  • App. 2. Determinables as universals
  • App. 3. Ontologies and concepts, two proposals.