Categories of being : essays on metaphysics and logic / edited by Leila Haaparanta and Heikki J. Koskinen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haaparanta, Leila, 1954- editor.

Koskinen, Heikki J., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Categories (Philosophy)--History.

Categories (Philosophy).

Ontology.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 489 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Essays on metaphysics and logic

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing, it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Throughout the volume, essays focus on metaphysica generalis, or the systematic study of the most gene

Contents:

Being, categories, and universal reference in Aristotle / Michael J. Loux

Dividing being: before and after Avicenna / Taneli Kukkonen

The metaphysics of the categories in John Duns Scotus / Simo Knuuttila

Ockham on being / Calvin G. Normore

Leibniz (and Ockham) on the language of thought, or how the true metaphysics is derived from the true logic / Henrik Lagerlund

The critique of pure reason as metaphysics / Olli Koistinen

The relation of logic to ontology in Hegel / Paul Redding

Bolzano's universe: metaphysics, logic, and truth / Arianna Betti

Charles S. Peirce: pragmatism, logic, and metaphysics / Torjus Midtgarden

Georg Cantor's paradise, metaphysics, and Husserlian logic / Claire Ortiz Hill

To be and/or not to be: the objects of Meinong and Husserl / Peter Simons

Logic and metaphysics in early analytic philosophy / Michael Beaney

Logic, modality, and metaphysics in early analytic philosophy: C.I. Lewis against Russell / Sanford Shieh

On "being" and being: Frege between Carnap and Heidegger / Leila Haaparanta

Quine, predication, and the categories of being / Heikki J. Koskinen

Wilfrid Sellars's anti-descriptivism / Kevin Scharp

Strawson's descriptive metaphysics / Hans-Johann Glock

D.M. Armstrong and the recovery of ontology / Keith Campbell

On Tropic Realism / Ilkka Niiniluoto

Transcendental philosophy as ontology / Sami Pihlstrom.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 13, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-67996-4

9786613656896

0-19-989058-7

OCLC:

794664538