Fundamentals of ontological commitment / Paolo Valore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valore, Paolo, 1972- author.

Series:

Eide ; Volume 10.

Eide : Foundations of Ontology, 2198-1841 ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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).

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

1. Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline

2. Ontology in Its Different Varieties

3. Logical Tools for Ontological Analysis

4. Mereological Tools of Ontological Analysis

5. Categories as Uppermost Kinds

6. Categorial Realism

7. Modalities

8. Categorial Conceptualism

9. Parts and Wholes

10. Natural Kinds and Ordering Strategies

11. Non-being

12. Being and Existence

13. Ontological Commitment

14. Identity

15. The Existence of God

16. God as an A Priori Idea

17. Gödel’s Proof

18. Three Classical Views about Universals

19. The Standard Approaches to Concrete Entities

20. The Ontological Import of Mathematics

21. Elements of Social Ontology

Relativism and Ontological Relativity

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110458640

3110458640

9783110459036

3110459035

OCLC:

935640128