Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? : Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen / Mirosław Szatkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Szatkowski, Mirosław, Editor.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Volume 81.

Philosophical Analysis ; 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Van Inwagen, Peter, 1942-.

Van Inwagen, Peter.

Metaphysics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The old philosophical discipline of metaphysics - after having been pronounced dead by many - has enjoyed a significant revival within the last thirty years, due to the application of the methods of analytic philosophy. One of the major contributors to this revival is the outstanding American metaphysician Peter van Inwagen. This volume brings together twenty-two scholars, who, in commemoration of Prof. van Inwagen's 75th birthday, ponder the future prospects of metaphysics in all the richness to which it has now returned. It is only natural that logical and epistemological reflections on the significance of metaphysics - sometimes called "meta-metaphysics" - play a considerable role in most of these papers. The volume is further enriched by an interview with Peter van Inwagen himself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

The Declaration of the Establishment of the International Society for Formal Ontology

Introduction

Interview with Peter van Inwagen

Jonathan and Peter

Where Are You Going, Metaphysics, and How Are You Getting There? - Grounding Theory as a Case Study

On the Relevance of Grounds

Metaphysical Differences

A Van Inwagenian Defense of Constitutionalism

Inside the Metaphysical Workshop

Existence Predicates

Modes of Being and the Mind

Imagining Fictional Characters

Objects That Are Not Objects

The Concept of Organism and Degrees of Composition

Peter van Inwagen and the Hylomorphic Renaissance

Remnant-Persons: A Commonsense Defence of Animalism

Van Inwagen's Approach to Relations and the Theory of O-Roles

Properties, Nominalisms and Things That Can Be Said

Paraphrase: A (More or Less) Van Inwagenian Way toward (Moderate) Nominalism

The Problem of the Many: Supervaluation, Rough Sets and Faultless Disagreement

Realizability as a Kind of Truth-Making

Optimalism in Explaining the Nature of Things

Van Inwagen on Testimony and Contingency

The Problem of Evil and Atonement

Resisting Rowe's No-Best-World Argument for Atheism

Deficiencies of Gödel's Ontological Proof

Authors of Contributed Papers

Person Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110662641

3110662647

9783110664812

311066481X

OCLC:

1129187645