Ontological investigations : an inquiry into the categories of nature, man and society / Ingvar Johansson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johansson, Ingvar, author.

Series:

Reprint philosophy ; v. 4.

Reprint philosophy ; volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Categories (Philosophy).

Intentionality (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Foreword to the second edition

Preface

1. Ontology

2. Irreductive Materialism

3. States of Affairs and Qualities

4. Exclusive and Inclusive Qualities

5. Actions and Functions

6. Patterns, Changes, and Pure Gestalten

7. Self-Sustaining Gestalten and Gestalten Causa Sui

8. External, Internal, and Grounded Relations

9. Existential Dependence

10. Container Space and Relational Space

11. Tendency

12. Efficient Causality

13. Intentionality

14. Nature: Parts and Wholes Without Intentionality

15. Man and Society: Nested Intentionality

16. Epistemological Positions

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Appendix 1: An aphoristic summary of Ontological Investigations

Appendix 2: Determinables as Universals

Appendix 3: Ontologies and Concepts. Two Proposals

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-032986-7

OCLC:

979626603

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access