Categories of being : essays on metaphysics and logic /
This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with inte...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Being, Categories, and Universal Reference in Aristotle; Chapter 2. Dividing Being: Before and After Avicenna; Chapter 3. The Metaphysics of the Categories in John Duns Scotus; Chapter 4. Ockham on Being; Chapter 5. Leibniz (and Ockham) on the Language of Thought, or How the True Metaphysics Is Derived from the True Logic; Chapter 6. The Critique of Pure Reason as Metaphysics; Chapter 7. The Relation of Logic to Ontology in Hegel; Chapter 8. Bolzano's Universe: Metaphysics, Logic, and Truth.
- Chapter 9. Charles S. Peirce: Pragmatism, Logic, and MetaphysicsChapter 10. Georg Cantor's Paradise, Metaphysics, and Husserlian Logic; Chapter 11. To Be and/or Not to Be: The Objects of Meinong and Husserl; Chapter 12. Logic and Metaphysics in Early Analytic Philosophy; Chapter 13. Logic, Modality, and Metaphysics in Early Analytic Philosophy: C.I. Lewis Against Russell; Chapter 14. On "Being" and Being: Frege Between Carnap and Heidegger; Chapter 15. Quine, Predication, and the Categories of Being; Chapter 16. Wilfrid Sellars's Anti-Descriptivism.
- Chapter 17. Strawson's Descriptive MetaphysicsChapter 18. D.M. Armstrong and the Recovery of Ontology; Chapter 19. On Tropic Realism; Chapter 20. Transcendental Philosophy as Ontology; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.