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Existence : essays in ontology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Inwagen, Peter (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Ontology.
Table of Contents:
  • Five questions
  • The new anti-metaphysicians
  • Being, existence, and ontological commitment
  • Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities
  • Can variables be explained away?
  • Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism
  • Alston on Ontological commitment
  • A theory of properties
  • What is an ontological category?
  • Relational vs. constituent ontologies
  • Can merological sums change their parts?
  • Causation and the mental.