Ontology

Dale Jacquette

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 2002

Ontology

Dale Jacquette

Volume 7 in the series Central Problems of Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773582675

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About this book

This introduction to ontology - the philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist - will provide students of metaphysics with a comprehensive account of the central ideas at the heart of the subject of being.

Author / Editor information

Jacquette Dale :

Dale Jacquette is professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and author of Ontology, A Companion to Philosophical Logic, and The Cambridge Companion to Brentano.

Reviews

"Jacquette offers a clear and powerful vision of ontology. The book is very well written, very well organized, its theses are clear, and it is packed with interesting material." John Divers, University of Leeds

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction: Being as such Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Pure philosophical ontology
What it is to be (on Heidegger) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Combinatorial ontology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Why there is something rather than nothing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Why there is only one logically contingent actual world Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Concepts of existence in philosophical logic and the analysis of being qua being Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Applied ontology and the metaphysics of science
Ontological commitment (on Quine) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Appearance, reality, substance, transcendence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Physical entities: space, time, matter and causation, physical states ef affairs and events, natural laws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Abstract entities, particular and universal: numbers, sets, properties, qualities, relations, prepesitiens and possibilities, logical, mathematical and metaphysical laws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Subjectivity of mind in the werid of objective physical facts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
God, a divine supernatural mind? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Ontology of culturo: language, art and artefacts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Conclusion: scientific-philosophical ontology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329

Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 365

eBook

Published: November 26, 2002
ISBN: 9780773582675