The System Of Absentology In Ontological Philosophy

Author : Adam Lovasz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
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Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443816557

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The System of Absentology in Ontological Philosophy by Adam Lovasz Pdf

This volume deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. The book is drawn by manifestations of absence wherever they may be encountered. It deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’, while constructing a non-realist ontology predicated upon the emptiness of all predicates, as expounded by certain strands of Hindu and Buddhist philosophy. According to the absentological viewpoint, there is nothing outside, beyond, below or above relations. Relations exist on their own, enchained within an immense, infinite regress, opening and closing upon one another. Absentology is, by consequence of its nonattachment to phenomena, a form of social inquiry fundamentally alien to each and every social form, and it abandons any illusions about the possibility of an escape from the realm of relationality. This book will appeal to students and academics interested in ontological philosophy.

Author : Adam Lovasz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793640826

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Updating Bergson by Adam Lovasz Pdf

Over the past few decades, there has been a renewal of scholarly interest in the work of Henri Bergson (1859–1941). At once a commentary and a stark re-evaluation of Bergson’s philosophy, Updating Bergson: A Philosophy of the Enduring Present argues that time should be thought of as a hierarchy of simultaneous durations, the shifting reality of which can be revealed by the philosophical method of intuition. A duration is a perpetually dynamic flow situated in the now. Put simply, for Bergson, change is the substance of things. Nothing exists apart from alteration. Adam Lovasz analyzes Bergson’s philosophy of time, encompassing the three basic types of duration—material, organic, and subjective—and also touches on themes such as relativity, evolution, the problem of materialism and idealism, and the topic of free will. Lovasz connects key questions addressed by Bergson to contemporary scientific debates and paradigms. Shedding new light on the various aspects of Bergson's philosophy, this book is both a provocation and an invitation to think in terms of the enduring present, rather than committing ourselves to a dead past or an absent future.

Author : Jan Westerhoff
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536465

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Ontological Categories by Jan Westerhoff Pdf

The concept of an ontological category is central to metaphysics. Metaphysicians argue about which category an object should be assigned to, whether one category can be reduced to another one, or whether there might be different equally adequate systems of categorization. Answers to these questions presuppose a clear understanding of what precisely an ontological category is, an issue which is rarely addressed; Jan Westerhoff presents the first in-depth analysis both of the use made of ontological categories in the metaphysical literature, and of various attempts at defining them. He also develops a new theory of ontological categories which implies that there will be no unique system, and that the ontological category an object belongs to is not an essential property of that object. Systems of ontological categories are structures imposed on the world, rather than reflections of a deep metaphysical reality already present. All metaphysicians should find Westerhoff's book highly stimulating.

Author : Joseph Kaipayil
Publisher : Joseph Kaipayil
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8190584405

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An Essay on Ontology by Joseph Kaipayil Pdf

Author : K. Mulligan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401126021

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Language, Truth and Ontology by K. Mulligan Pdf

All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui", Geneva, 3-5 June 1988. The three exceptions, the papers by David Armstrong, Uwe Meixner and Wolfgang Lenzen, were presented at the colloquium on "Properties", Zinal, June 1-3, 1990. It was, incidentally, at the second of these two colloquia that the European Society for Analytic Philosophy came into being. The fathers of analytic philosophy - Moore and Russell - were in no doubt that ontology or metaphysics as well as the topics oflanguage, truth and logic constituted the core subject-matter of their "analytic realism", 1 for the task of metaphysics as they conceived things was the description of 2 the world. And logic and ontology are indissolubly linked in the system of the grandfather of analytic philosophy, Frege. After the Golden Age of analytic philosophy - in Cambridge and Austria - opposition to realism as well as the "linguistic turn" contributed for a long time to the eclipse of ontology. 3 Thanks in large measure to the work of some of the senior contributors to the present volume - Roderick Chisholm, Herbert Hochberg, David Armstrong and Karel Lambert - ontology and metaphysics now enjoy once again the central position they occupied some eighty years ago in the heyday of analytic philosophy.

Author : W.F. Vallicella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402008872

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A Paradigm Theory of Existence by W.F. Vallicella Pdf

What is it for any contingent thing to exist? Why does any contingent thing exist? For some time now, the preferred style in addressing such questions has been deflationary when it has not been eliminativist. In its critical half, this book thoroughly analyzes and demolishes the main deflationary and eliminativist accounts of existence, including those of Brentano, Frege, Russell, and Quine, thereby restoring existence to its rightful place as one of the deep topics in philosophy, if not the deepest. In its constructive half, the book defends the thesis that the two questions admit of a unified answer, and that this answer takes the form of what the author calls a paradigm theory of existence. The central idea of the paradigm theory is that existence itself is a paradigmatically existent concrete individual. In this way the author vindicates onto-theology and puts paid to the Heideggerian conceit that Being cannot itself be a being. This work will be of interest to all serious students and teachers of philosophy, especially those interested in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

Author : Joseph Kaipayil
Publisher : Joseph Kaipayil
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788187664024

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Critical Ontology by Joseph Kaipayil Pdf

Author : Ingvar Johansson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : John Heil
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191531859

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From an Ontological Point of View by John 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 bear to 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 : Nicolai Hartmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110627350

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Ontology: Laying the Foundations by Nicolai Hartmann Pdf

It is no exaggeration to say that of the early 20th century German philosophers who claimed to establish a new ontology, former neo-Kantian turned realist Nicolai Hartmann is the only one to have actually followed through. "Ontology: Laying the Foundations" deals with "what is insofar as it is," and its four parts tackle traditional ontological assumptions and prejudices and traditional categories such as substance, thing, individual, whole, object, and phenomenon; a novel redefinition of existence and essence in terms of the ontological factors Dasein and Sosein and their interrelations; an analysis of modes of "givenness" and the ontological embeddedness of cognition in affective transcendent acts; and a discussion of the status of ideal being, including mathematical being, phenomenological essences, logical laws, values, and the interconnections between the ideal and real spheres. Hartmann’s work offers rich resources for those interested in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th century philosophy. Hartmann’s work offers rich resources for those interested in overcoming the human-centeredness of much 20th century philosophy.

Author : Javier Cumpa,Erwin Tegtmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110329599

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Ontological Categories by Javier Cumpa,Erwin Tegtmeier Pdf

This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology.

Author : Hermann Lotze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Logic
ISBN : OSU:32435023055254

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Lotze's System of Philosophy: Metaphysic in three books, ontology, cosmology and psychology by Hermann Lotze Pdf

Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489597

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Ontology by Dale Jacquette Pdf

The philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist is one of the core concerns of metaphysics. This introduction to ontology provides readers with a comprehensive account of the central ideas of the subject of being. This book is divided into two parts. The first part explores questions of pure philosophical ontology: what is meant by the concept of being, why there exists something rather than nothing, and why there is only one logically contingent actual world. Dale Jacquette shows how logic provides the only possible answers to these fundamental problems. The second part of the book examines issues of applied scientific ontology. Jacquette offers a critical survey of some of the most influential traditional ontologies, such as the distinction between appearance and reality, and the categories of substance and transcendence. The ontology of physical entities - space, time, matter and causation - is examined as well as the ontology of abstract entities such as sets, numbers, properties, relations and propositions. The special problems posed by the subjectivity of mind and of postulating a god are also explored in detail. The final chapter examines the ontology of culture, language and art.

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199669578

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Necessary Beings by Bob Hale Pdf

Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.

Author : G.S. Rosenkrantz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0792324382

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Haecceity by G.S. Rosenkrantz Pdf

Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or `thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the only book-length work devoted to this topic. The author develops a novel defense of Platonism, arguing, first, that abstracta - nonqualitative haecceities - are needed to explain concreta's being diverse at a time; and second, that unexemplified haecceities are then required to accommodate the full range of cases in which there are possible worlds containing individuals not present in the actual world. In the cognitive area, an original epistemic argument is presented which implies that certain haecceities can be grasped by a person: his own, those of certain of his mental states, and those of various abstracta, but not those of external things. It is argued that in consequence there is a clear sense in which one is directly acquainted with the former entities, but not with external things.