Essays On Essence And Existence

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198854296

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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words--verbal definitions-and to things--real definitions--and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings.

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192596222

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Essays on Essence and Existence by Bob Hale Pdf

Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings—including several previously unpublished—by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words—verbal definitions-and to things—real definitions—and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings.

Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107047129

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Existence by Peter van Inwagen Pdf

This is a collection of Peter van Inwagen's recent essays on ontology and meta-ontology.

Author : James Alabi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668777519

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Thematic Distinction Between Essence and Existence by James Alabi Pdf

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, language: English, abstract: The terms essence and existence have dominated philosophical discussions for centuries, at least from the era of Plato up to the contemporary times. The central issue at the heart of this discourse in the preliminary stage had to do with the question of what actually makes an essence of an existing entity. For example, if you say God, philosophers will probe further to ask: what is the essence of God? In other words, 'what are those characteristics that are truly exclusive to God? If, again, you say a Satsuma (a type of orange) exists, then one will be prompted to ask as to what features distinguish it from a tangerine. That is, what are those distinctive qualities - essentially immaterial - that will not make me call an existential Satsuma a tangerine? What the inquirer is demanding is simply something more than mere the Satsuma or any of the accidental features like colour, taste, etc. Questions have also been raised in terms of what actually exists as against what is believed to exist. The discourse quickly like wild fire moved from the level of mere conceptualizing the terms to the level of philosophers trying to find out which of essence and existence precedes each other. In other words, granted, at least, at level of assumption that both human and objects exist, philosophers are asking whether their essence precedes their existence. The battle to resolve this crisis of concepts pitted modern Christian philosophers like Bishop George Berkeley and Immanuel Kant against contemporary existentialists like Jean Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger. The former school, led by Berkeley in its submission had argued that essence precedes existence, while the latter, championed by extensively by Sartre disagrees, saying existence precedes essence. However, there are other variations to the discourse but it is sufficient for the scope of this paper to limit discussion to these tw

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781446548226

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Existence And Being by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Lady Mary Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Causation
ISBN : OXFORD:600010883

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Essays on the Perception of an External Universe by Lady Mary Shepherd Pdf

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Existentialism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004982471

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Existence and Being by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Author : Leila Haaparanta,Heikki J. Koskinen
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199890576

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Categories of Being by Leila Haaparanta,Heikki J. Koskinen Pdf

This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing, it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Throughout the volume, essays focus on metaphysica generalis, or the systematic study of the most general categories of being. Beginning with Aristotle and his Categories , the volume goes on to trace metaphyscis and logic through the late ancient and Arabic traditions, examining the views of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, contributors engage with Leibniz's metaphysics, Kant's critique of metaphysics, the relation between logic and ontology in Hegel, and Bolzano's views. Subsequent chapters address: Charles S. Peirce's logic and metaphysics; the relevance of set-theory to metaphysics; Meinong's theory of objects; Husserl's formal ontology; early analytic philosophy; C.I. Lewis and his relation to Russell; and the relations between Frege, Carnap, and Heidegger. Surveying metaphysics through to the contemporary age, essays explore W.V. Quine's attitude towards metaphysics; Wilfrid Sellars's relation to antidescriptivism as it connects to Kripke's; the views of Putnam and Kaplan; Peter F. Strawson's and David M. Armstrong's metaphysics; Trope theory; and its relation to Popper's conception of three worlds. The volume ends with a chapter on transcendental philosophy as ontology. In each chapter, contributors approach their topics not merely in an historical and exegetical fashion, but also engage critically with the thought of the philosophers whose work they discuss, offering synthesis and original philosophical thought in the volume, in addition to very extensive and well-informed analysis and interpretation of important philosophical texts. The volume will serve as an essential reference for scholars of metaphysics and logic.

Author : Paul Gerard Horrigan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595423644

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God's Existence and Other Philosophical Essays by Paul Gerard Horrigan Pdf

Author : John R. Jacobson,Robert Lloyd Mitchell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015017654594

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Existence of God by John R. Jacobson,Robert Lloyd Mitchell Pdf

A collection of essays from the Basic Issues Forum, focusing on intercultural, interdisciplinary responses to the issue The Existence of God proposed by the Basic Issues Forum of Washington and Jefferson College. Essays include such topics as Is Existence' a Desirable Attribute of a Real God? by Robert F. Streetman, Jungian Archetypes and the Transcendent Image by Nancy Tenfelde Clasby, The Universe as Controlled Accident' by Conrad Hyers, and The Ethics of Unbelief: Philosophy, Responsibility, and the Ratio Anselmi' by G. Scott Davis.

Author : Sara Bernstein,Tyron Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198846222

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Non-Being by Sara Bernstein,Tyron Goldschmidt Pdf

Nonexistence is ubiquitous, yet mysterious. This volume explores some of the most puzzling questions about non-being and nonexistence, and offers answers from diverse philosophical perspectives. The contributors draw on analytic, continental, Buddhist, and Jewish philosophical traditions, and the topics range from metaphysics to ethics, from philosophy of science to philosophy of language, and beyond.

Author : Kamal A. Shlbei
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9798887292502

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Ten Philosophical Essays by Kamal A. Shlbei Pdf

Ten Philosophical Essays By: Kamal A. Shlbei This book contains ten philosophical essays written from 2008 to 2010 as part of the prerequisites for writing a dissertation to obtain a doctoral degree in the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These essays vary in their philosophical themes and historical periods. In the first essay, we stand at the problem of the thing-in-itself as raised by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant and the criticisms leveled at it by the philosophers who followed it. The second essay reveals the dialectical relationship between value theory and theory of knowledge in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. The third essay exposes the forgetfulness into which Deleuze fell when he neglected the study of Jacobi and Suarez on the subject of individual ontology. The fourth essay reveals the internal relations between the concepts of domination, power, and knowledge in the context of Foucault's intellectual development from the stage of archeology to the stage of genealogy to the stage of self-care. The fifth essay explores Al-Farabi's philosophical view of happiness, which, although it seems parallel to Aristotle's understanding, has its own Islamic character. The sixth essay deals with the thesis of essence and existence in Aquinas’ On Being and Essence. The seventh essay presents the problem of the unity of intellect between Averroes and Aquinas, in light of the controversy taking place in the Middle Ages over the ontological proof of God. The eighth essay examines the relation between justice of law and law of justice according to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The ninth essay returns to the problem of essence and existence, but in its modern philosophical dimension, as it was manifested in Kierkegaard's existential philosophy through his book Philosophical Fragments. The tenth essay presents Marx's criticism of Hegel in the light of historical materialism.

Author : Giorgio Agamben
Publisher : Stanford Univ Press + ORM
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804764070

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Potentialities by Giorgio Agamben Pdf

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exception. Giorgio Agamben is one of contemporary philosophy’s most influential thinkers on the subjects of language, power, society. This collection of essays opens with an enlightening introduction by the translator Daniel Heller-Roazen, who situates Agamben’s work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought. The essays that follow articulate a series of theoretical confrontations with privileged figures in the history of philosophy, politics, and criticism, from Plato to Spinoza, Aristotle to Deleuze, Carl Schmitt to Benjamin, Hegel to Aby Warburg, and Heidegger to Derrida. Three fundamental concepts organize the collection as a whole: the existence of language; the nature of history; and the problem of potentiality in metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. All these topics converge in the final part of the book, in which Agamben offers an extensive reading of Melville’s short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” as a work that puts potentiality and actuality, possibility and reality, in a new light.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107437647

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Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana Pdf

Originally published in 1933, this book contains five philosophical essays by the famous philosopher and essayist George Santayana. The topics cover both older philosophy, such as those of Locke, as well as philosophy's relationship to newer discoveries, such as the theory of relativity. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in twentieth-century philosophy and the writings of Santayana.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Existentialism
ISBN : UCBK:C099384994

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Existence and Being by Martin Heidegger Pdf