Prof Peter van Inwagen (John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosoph

The Abstract and the Concrete

Further Essays in Ontology

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Produktbeschreibung

The Abstract and the Concrete draws together Peter Van Inwagen's essays in ontology from the last decade. They range over topics in meta-ontology, the author's distinctive version of platonism, mathematical fictionalism, analyticity, and colour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780192870452
• ISBN-10: 0192870459
• Artikelnr.: 68504007

Autorenporträt

Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered the Maurice Lectures at King's College, London, the Wilde Lectures on Natural Religion at Oxford University, the Stewart Lectures at Princeton University, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews, where he received an honorary doctorate. He is the author of eight books and over two hundred essays and critical studies, and has had three books and four international conferences devoted to his work.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Meta-ontology
1: Modes of Being and Quantification
2: The Neo-Carnapians"
3: Dispensing with Ontological Levels: An Illustration
2. Platonism-of a sort
4: In Defense of Lightweight Platonism
5: Two Problems for a Truth-Centered Ontology
6: In Defense of Transcendent Universals
3. Topics in Ontology
7: Fictionalist Nominalism and Applied Mathematics
8: Against Analytic Existence Entailments
9: Color is an Illusion