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Ontology, modality, and mind : themes from the metaphysics of E.J. Lowe / edited by Alexander Carruth, Sophie Gibb, and John Heil.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Carruth, Alexander, editor.
Gibb, S. C. (Sophie C.), editor.
Heil, John, editor.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lowe, E. J. (E. Jonathan)--Criticism and interpretation.
Lowe, E. J.
Metaphysics.
Ontology.
Philosophy of mind.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 195 pages) : illustrations
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
Themes from the metaphysics of E.J. Lowe
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Summary:
This title explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E.J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. During his forty-year career, he established himself as one of the world's leading philosophers, publishing 11 single-authored books and well over 200 essays. His scholarship was strikingly broad, ranging from early modern philosophy to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. His most important and sustained contributions were to philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and above all metaphysics.
Contents:
Introduction / John Heil
Part I: Categorial ontology. Metaphysics as the science of essence / E.J. Lowe
Lowe : the primacy of metaphysics, and the basis of categorial distinction / Peter Simons
Existents and universals / John Heil Whole, but not one / Anna Marmodoro
Part II: Necessity and essence. The impossiblity of natural necessity / David S. Oderberg
The epistemology of essence / Tuomas E. Tahko
Essence and necessity : the case of normative nonnaturalism / Antonella Corradini Lowe's new ontological argument / Peter van Inwagen
Part III: Mental Causation. The ontology of E.J. Lowe's substance dualism / Alexander Carruth, Sophie Gibb
Could mental causation be invisible? / David Robb.
Notes:
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
0-19-251614-0
0-19-186680-6
0-19-251613-2

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