Ontological Investigations: An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man and Soceity

Ingvar Johansson

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2004

Ontological Investigations

An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man and Soceity

Ingvar Johansson

Volume 4 in the series Reprint Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110329865

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About this book

This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reality is addressed, starting out from the view that universals exist but only in the spatiotemporal world (immanent realism). In attempting to bring Aristotle's ontology up-to-date, the author relies very much on the thinking of Edmund Husserl, conceiving the cement of the universe as Husserlian relations of existential dependence and regarding intentionality as a non-reducible category in the ontology of mind. The work is thoroughly realistic in spirit, but large parts of it should nonetheless be of interest to conceptualists and nominalists, too.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword to the second edition Open Access Download PDF	VII
Preface Open Access Download PDF	XV
1. Ontology Open Access Download PDF	1
2. Irreductive Materialism Open Access Download PDF	22
3. States of Affairs and Qualities Open Access Download PDF	30
4. Exclusive and Inclusive Qualities Open Access Download PDF	42
5. Actions and Functions Open Access Download PDF	58
6. Patterns, Changes, and Pure Gestalten Open Access Download PDF	85
7. Self-Sustaining Gestalten and Gestalten Causa Sui Open Access Download PDF	95
8. External, Internal, and Grounded Relations Open Access Download PDF	110
9. Existential Dependence Open Access Download PDF	124
10. Container Space and Relational Space Open Access Download PDF	145
11. Tendency Open Access Download PDF	161
12. Efficient Causality Open Access Download PDF	171
13. Intentionality Open Access Download PDF	196
14. Nature: Parts and Wholes Without Intentionality Open Access Download PDF	227
15. Man and Society: Nested Intentionality Open Access Download PDF	258
16. Epistemological Positions Open Access Download PDF	315
Notes Open Access Download PDF	334
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	360
Index Open Access Download PDF	367
Appendix 1: An aphoristic summary of Ontological Investigations Open Access Download PDF	379
Appendix 2: Determinables as Universals Open Access Download PDF	389
Appendix 3: Ontologies and Concepts. Two Proposals Open Access Download PDF	411
Backmatter Open Access Download PDF	415

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 414
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Metaphysik; Ontologie; Sozialphilosophie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110329865

Hardcover

Published: April 15, 2012
ISBN: 9783110329698