Ontological landscapes : recent thought on conceptual interfaces between science and philosophy / Vesselin Petrov (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petrov, Vesselin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Science.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the last decades ontology has been successfully developed in many directions and has fostered various approaches for depicting the contemporary ontological landscapes. An important task is to outline recent thought on the conceptual interfaces between science and philosophy. The present volume opens up a view onto the plurality of different ontological schemes. The papers collected here discuss the interfaces between ontology and empirical research that are created by the notions of a whole, a thought, a number, a quality, an ability, a kind, notions of causation, dynamicity, and social objects, the application of relevant logical tools for the reconsideration of ontological paradigms, as well as the investigation of the consequences in cognitive sciences on the development of ontology.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

Acknowledgements

Preface

I. Analysis-synthesis / Poli, Roberto

II. How can we verify metaphysical hypotheses? / Ogrodnik, Bogdan

III. Logical analysis and its ontological consequences: Rise, fall and resurgence of intensional objects in contemporary philosophy / Leclercq, Bruno

IV. Causality: ontological principle or explanatory scheme? / Stefanov, Anguel S.

V. The metaphysics of secondary qualities: defending response-intentionalism / Miščević, Nenad

VI. Process ontology in the context of applied philosophy / Petrov, Vesselin

VII. Sparse and dense categories: what they tell us about natural kinds / Gurova, Lilia

VIII. Ontology of ability: a defense of the counterfactual analysis of ability / Bakalova, Marina

IX. Naturalizing mathematics and naturalizing ethics / Pataut, Fabrice

X. On the intricate interplay of logic and ontology / Lutskanov, Rosen

XI. The Politics of Radical Experience / Weber, Michel

XII. Towards a reistic social-historical philosophy / Milkov, Nikolay

XIII. Revisiting Sartre's Ontology of Embodiment in Being and Nothingness / Moran, Dermot

XIV. On the effects of a fictitious encounter between Alfred North Whitehead and Gilbert Simondon / Deroo, Emeline

Analytic Table of Contents

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-86838-107-4

3-11-031981-0

OCLC:

851972070