From An Ontological Point Of View

Author : John Heil,John Fergusson Heil
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 284 pages
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Release : 2003-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199259748

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From an Ontological Point of View by John Heil,John Fergusson Heil Pdf

Is the world hierarchically arranged, incorporating 'levels' of reality? What is the nature of objects and properties? What does 'realism' about ordinary objects or states of mind demand? When an assertion is true, what makes it true? Are natural properties best regarded as qualities or powers or some combination of these? What are colours? What explains the 'projective' character of intentionality? What is the nature of consciousness, and what relation do conscious experiences bearto material states and processes?From an Ontological Point of View endeavours to provide answers to such questions through an examination of ground-floor issues in ontology. The result is an account of the fundamental constituents of the world around us and an application of this account to problems dominating recent work in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.The book, written in an accessible, non-technical style, is intended for non-specialists as well as seasoned metaphysicians.

Author : Michael Esfeld
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110324761

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John Heil by Michael Esfeld Pdf

Fifty years after Willard Van Orman Quine published From a logical point of view (1953), John Heil brought out his book 'From an ontological point of view' (2003). The title expresses the shift in contemporary philosophy from logical and epistemological concerns to metaphysics. The papers of this symposium discuss that shift, focussing on what John Heil calls 'ontological seriousness', truth-making, levels of being, properties, powers, and reductionism. Each paper is followed by a comment from John Heil. The volume covers a number of the most hotly debated issues in today’s metaphysics and moves the discussion on in several important aspects. 'It would be difficult to imagine a collection of more astute, penetrating, and philosophically hard-hitting discussions of the kind of metaphysical realism articulated in 'From an Ontological Point of View'. Symposium participants deploy an impressive range of analytical skills in a way that illuminates connections among metaphysical positions that too often escape notice.' (John Heil)

Author : Michael Esfeld
Publisher : Ontos Verlag
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3938793279

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John Heil by Michael Esfeld Pdf

Fifty years after Willard Van Orman Quine published From a Logical Point of View (1953), John Heil brought out his book From an Ontological Point of View (2003). The title expresses the shift in contemporary philosophy from logical and epistemological concerns to metaphysics. The papers of this symposium discuss that shift, focusing on what John Heil calls "ontological seriousness," truth-making, levels of being, properties, powers, and reductionism. Each paper is followed by a comment from John Heil. The volume covers a number of the most hotly debated issues in today's metaphysics and moves the discussion on in several important aspects. Michael Esfeld is professor of philosophy at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland).

Author : Michael Crotty
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446283134

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The Foundations of Social Research by Michael Crotty Pdf

Choosing a research method can be bewildering. How can you be sure which methodology is appropriate, or whether your chosen combination of methods is consistent with the theoretical perspective you want to take? This book links methodology and theory with great clarity and precision, showing students and researchers how to navigate the maze of conflicting terminology. The major epistemological stances and theoretical perspectives that colour and shape current social research are detailed and the author reveals the philosophical origins of these schools of inquiry and shows how various disciplines contribute to the practice of social research as it is known today.

Author : Anjan Chakravartty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
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Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190651473

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Scientific Ontology by Anjan Chakravartty Pdf

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like. Science and philosophy, however, seem like very different ways of investigating the world, so how should one proceed? Some defer to the sciences, conceived as something apart from philosophy, and others to metaphysics, conceived as something apart from science, for certain kinds of answers. This book contends that these sorts of deference are misconceived. A compelling account of ontology must appreciate the ways in which the sciences incorporate metaphysical assumptions and arguments. At the same time, it must pay careful attention to how observation, experience, and the empirical dimensions of science are related to what may be viewed as defensible philosophical theorizing about ontology. The promise of an effectively naturalized metaphysics is to encourage beliefs that are formed in ways that do justice to scientific theorizing, modeling, and experimentation. But even armed with such a view, there is no one, uniquely rational way to draw lines between domains of ontology that are suitable for belief, and ones in which it would be better to suspend belief instead. In crucial respects, ontology is in the eye of the beholder: it is informed by underlying commitments with implications for the limits of inquiry, which inevitably vary across rational inquirers. As result, the proper scope of ontology is subject to a striking form of voluntary choice, yielding a new and transformative conception of scientific ontology.

Author : Michael Esfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066684019

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John Heil - by Michael Esfeld Pdf

Author : Concha Martínez,Uxía Rivas,Luis Villegas-Forero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429782046

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Truth in Perspective by Concha Martínez,Uxía Rivas,Luis Villegas-Forero Pdf

First published in 1998, this volume has its origin in a meeting that was held in Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in January 1996. The meeting was organized by the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science in cooperation with the Association for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Spain. Within analytical philosophy issues such as the definability of truth, its semantic relevance, its role in the distinction between formal and natural languages, the status of truth-bearers or in its case of truth-makers, have become a crossroads in the studies of logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology and ontology. Thus, in spite of what the title Truth in Perspective may suggest to the reader at first, the present volume is not only - though it is also a presentation of different theories or conceptions of truth. Most of the book presents a vision of different groups of philosophical questions in which the issue of truth appears embedded together with other related themes, from different points of view.

Author : John Heil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199596201

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The Universe As We Find It by John Heil Pdf

In this book the author what it means to be physical, mental, or abstract entity, and how they relate to the concept of reality. His answers are framed in terms of a comprehensive ontology of substances, and properties inspired by Descartes, Locke, their successors, and their latter day exemplars.

Author : Sean Moore Ireton
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015074302871

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An Ontological Study of Death by Sean Moore Ireton Pdf

Examines conceptions of death as manifested in German literature and philosophy expanding on thanatological theories that distinguish between a metaphysical and an ontological view of human finitude. This book addresses the French philosophical treatment of death by Blanchot, Kojeve, and others in the wake of their German predecessors.

Author : Paolo Valore
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110459036

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Fundamentals of Ontological Commitment by Paolo Valore Pdf

Scientific literature on particular themes in ontology is extremely abundant, but it is often very hard for freshmen or sophomores to find a red thread between the various proposals. This text is an opinionated introduction, a preliminary text to research in ontology from the so called standard approach to ontological commitment, that is from the particular point of view that connects ontological questions to quantificational questions. It offers a survey of this viewpoint in ontology together with their possible applications through a broad array of examples and open problems and, at the same time, essential references to the classics of philosophy, so as to allow non-specialists to understand the terms and analysis procedures characterizing the discipline. Its result is a wide-ranging overview of the issued tackled by ontology, with a particular focus on the most relevant problems of contemporary debate (categorial taxonomies, nonexistent objects, case studies of ontological debates in specific fields of knowledge).

Author : Andreas Tolk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642311406

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Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation by Andreas Tolk Pdf

In this book, internationally recognized experts in philosophy of science, computer science, and modeling and simulation are contributing to the discussion on how ontology, epistemology, and teleology will contribute to enable the next generation of intelligent modeling and simulation applications. It is well understood that a simulation can provide the technical means to display the behavior of a system over time, including following observed trends to predict future possible states, but how reliable and trustworthy are such predictions? The questions about what we can know (ontology), how we gain new knowledge (epistemology), and what we do with this knowledge (teleology) are therefore illuminated from these very different perspectives, as each experts uses a different facet to look at these challenges. The result of bringing these perspectives into one book is a challenging compendium that gives room for a spectrum of challenges: from general philosophy questions, such as can we use modeling and simulation and other computational means at all to discover new knowledge, down to computational methods to improve semantic interoperability between systems or methods addressing how to apply the recent insights of service oriented approaches to support distributed artificial intelligence. As such, this book has been compiled as an entry point to new domains for students, scholars, and practitioners and to raise the curiosity in them to learn more to fully address the topics of ontology, epistemology, and teleology from philosophical, computational, and conceptual viewpoints.

Author : John Heil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191632846

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The Universe As We Find It by John Heil Pdf

What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical -mental, and perhaps 'abstract' -aspects? What is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity? What are the elements of being, reality's raw materials? How is the manifest image we inherit from our culture and refine in the special sciences related to the scientific image as we have it in fundamental physics? Can physics be understood as providing a 'theory of everything', or do the various sciences make up a hierarchy corresponding to autonomous levels of reality? Is our conscious human perspective on the universe in the universe or at its limits? What, if anything, makes ordinary truths, truths of the special sciences, and truths of mathematics true? And what is it for an assertion or judgment to be 'made true'? In The Universe As We Find It, John Heil offers answers to these questions framed in terms of a comprehensive ontology of substances and properties inspired by Descartes, Locke, their successors, and their latter day exemplars. Substances are simple, lacking parts that are themselves substances. Properties are modes -particular ways particular substances are -and arrangements of propertied substances serve as truthmakers for all the truths that have truthmakers. Heil argues that the deep story about the nature of these truthmakers can only be told by fundamental physics.

Author : Jody Azzouni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190622558

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Ontology Without Borders by Jody Azzouni Pdf

A new approach to the metaphysics, background logic, and semantics of ontological debate, Ontology Without Borders offers new solutions to perennial philosophical puzzles about constitution and the nonexistent. Book jacket.

Author : Ingvar Johansson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110329865

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Ontological Investigations by Ingvar Johansson Pdf

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 that universals exist but only in the spatiotemporal world (immanent realism). In attempting to bring Aristotle's ontology up-to-date, the author relies very much on the thinking of Edmund Husserl, conceiving the cement of the universe as Husserlian relations of existential dependence and regarding intentionality as a non-reducible category in the ontology of mind. The work is thoroughly realistic in spirit, but large parts of it should nonetheless be of interest to conceptualists and nominalists, too.

Author : Rosaria Egidi,Guido Bonino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110325980

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Fostering the Ontological Turn by Rosaria Egidi,Guido Bonino Pdf

Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann's work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Université de Provence in France, and Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in Italy. The fifteen papers collected in this volume were presented at the third of these conferences, in Rome, and are here divided into three sections: "Categories of a realistic ontology", "World, mind, and relations", "Metaphysics of space and time".