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What are we to understand Gracia to mean? : realist challenges to metaphysical neutralism / edited by Robert A. Delfino.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Value inquiry book series ; v. 177.
- Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; v. 177
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Gracia, Jorge J. E. Metaphysics and its task.
- Gracia, Jorge J. E.
- Gracia, Jorge J. E--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides a series of challenges to Jorge J. E. Gracia's views on metaphysics and categories made by realist philosophers in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Inclusion of Gracia's responses to his critics makes this book a useful companion to Gracia's Metaphysics and its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge.
- Contents:
- Foreword by Ralph M. McInerny
- Editor's Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- One: Thomas D. SULLIVAN and Russell PANNIER: The Bounds of Metaphysics
- Two: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being, the Transcendentals, the Divine, and Metaphysics: Response to Sullivan and Pannier
- Three: Josef SEIFERT: What is Metaphysics and What are its Tasks?: An Attempt to Answer this Question with Critical Reflections on Gracia's Book
- Four: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Being as Being and the Tasks of Metaphysics: Response to Seifert
- Five: Jonathan J. SANFORD: An Aristotelian Critique of Gracia's Metaphysics
- Six: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Metaphysics and Meta-Metaphysics: Response to Sanford
- Seven: Robert A. DELFINO: Neo-Thomism and Gracia's Metaphysics
- Eight: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Thomas, Thomists, and the Nature of Metaphysics: Response to Delfino
- Nine: Peter A. REDPATH: Gracia and His Task
- Ten: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: The Nature of Philosophy: Response to Redpath
- Eleven: John D. KRONEN: Spirits and "Things": Ritschl's Critique of Metaphysics in Light of Gracia's Definition of Metaphysics
- Twelve: Daniel D. NOVOTNY: Is Hume A Metaphysician?: Aristotle vs. Gracia.
- Thirteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Making Sense of the History of Metaphysics: Response to Kronen and Novotny
- Fourteen: Russell PANNIER and Thomas D. SULLIVAN: Gracia on the Ontological Status of Categories
- Fifteen: Jorge J. E. GRACIA: Categorial Neutralism: Response To Pannier, Sullivan, Seifert, and Ingala
- Afterword by Jorge J. E. GRACIA
- About the Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Collection of texts published previously.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 94-012-0319-9
- 1-4294-5652-3
- OCLC:
- 85846164
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789401203197 DOI
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