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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| Định dạng: | Sách |
| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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Frankfurt : [New Brunswick, NJ] :
Ontos Verlag ; Distributed in North America by Transaction Books,
2004.
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| Phiên bản: | [2nd ed.]. |
| Loạt: | Reprint philosophy ;
v. 4 |
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Mục lục:
- 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.