Studies in the ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann / Javier Cumpa (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cumpa, Javier.

Series:

Eide ; v. 1.

Eide : foundations of ontology ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1931-.

Grossmann, Reinhardt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians. Although he was a student of Bergmann, he influenced the development of Bergmann's metaphysics considerably. No philosopher other than Grossmann defends perception to that degree against the persistent skeptical arguments. He characterizes his epistemological positions as radical empiricism and radical realism. By realism Grossmann mainly means the view that the material things we perceive exist. It is thus also an ontological position and closely related to his empiricism. Grossmann's empiricism is radical insofar as he claims that entities of all categories are perceptible, even numbers and universals. Grossmann's universal realism advocates a theory of abstract categories against the current naturalism. He distinguishes between the world and the physical universe. The latter is the domain of science; the former is the subject of ontology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Abbreviations Of Grossmann's Works

Grossmann Studies

1. Grossmann on Relations and Intentionality / Addis, Laird

2. It is about Time / Allaire, Edwin B.

3. Reinhardt Grossmann's Ontology / Armstrong, David M.

4. One- and Two- Level Acts: Bergmann and Grossmann on Realism / Bonino, Guido

5. Facts / Butchvarov, Panayot

6. What is a Universal? Main Problems of Property Theory / Cumpa, Javier

7. Dualism and the Mind-Body Trilemma / Gadenne, Volker

8. Grossmann and the Ontological Status of Categories / Symington, Paul / Gracia, Jorge J. E.

9. The Intersection of the Mind and the World: Reinhardt Grossmann's Ontology of Knowledge / Jesson, Greg

10. Grossmann on Property-Instances and Existence: Suárez's Way Out / Moreland, James P.

11. Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond / Simons, Peter

12. Three Ontologies of the Iowa School: Categories and Composition / Tegtmeier, Erwin

13. Some Reflections on Grossmann on the Entity Existence / Wilson, Fred

Appendixes

Appendix I: An Unpublished Manuscript on Philosophy of Mind (1993) I. Materialism and the New Folk Philosophy / Grossmann, Reinhardt

Appendix II: A List of the Published Works of R. Grossmann / Cumpa, Javier

Appendix III: A Bibliography on R. Grossmann's Philosophy / Cumpa, Javier

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86838-063-9

3-11-032246-3

OCLC:

851970792