Studies in the Ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann

Published by De Gruyter 2010

Studies in the Ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann

Edited by: Javier Cumpa

Volume 1 in the series Eide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110322460

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Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians. Although he was a student of Bergmann, he influenced the development of Bergmann's metaphysics considerably. No philosopher other than Grossmann defends perception to that degree against the persistent skeptical arguments. He characterizes his epistemological positions as radical empiricism and radical realism. By realism Grossmann mainly means the view that the material things we perceive exist. It is thus also an ontological position and closely related to his empiricism. Grossmann's empiricism is radical insofar as he claims that entities of all categories are perceptible, even numbers and universals. Grossmann's universal realism advocates a theory of abstract categories against the current naturalism. He distinguishes between the world and the physical universe. The latter is the domain of science; the former is the subject of ontology.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table Of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Abbreviations Of Grossmann’s Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Grossmann Studies
1. Grossmann on Relations and Intentionality Laird Addis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2. It is about Time Edwin B. Allaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontology David M. Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
4. One- and Two- Level Acts: Bergmann and Grossmann on Realism Guido Bonino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
5. Facts Panayot Butchvarov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
6. What is a Universal? Main Problems of Property Theory Javier Cumpa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
7. Dualism and the Mind-Body Trilemma Volker Gadenne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. Grossmann and the Ontological Status of Categories Paul Symington and Jorge J. E. Gracia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
9. The Intersection of the Mind and the World: Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontology of Knowledge Greg Jesson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
10. Grossmann on Property-Instances and Existence: Suárez’s Way Out James P. Moreland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
11. Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond Peter Simons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
12. Three Ontologies of the Iowa School: Categories and Composition Erwin Tegtmeier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
13. Some Reflections on Grossmann on the Entity Existence Fred Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Appendixes
Appendix I: An Unpublished Manuscript on Philosophy of Mind (1993) I. Materialism and the New Folk Philosophy Reinhardt Grossmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Appendix II: A List of the Published Works of R. Grossmann Javier Cumpa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Appendix III: A Bibliography on R. Grossmann’s Philosophy Javier Cumpa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 298
Keywords: Metaphysik; Ontologie; Philosophie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110322460

Hardcover

Published: March 22, 2010
ISBN: 9783110322170