Ontology and the ambitions of metaphysics /
Thomas Hofweber explores four major metaphysical debates tied to ontology: the philosophy of arithmetic, the metaphysics of ordinary objects, the problem of universals, and the nature of the fact-like aspect of reality. He defends metaphysics as having some questions of fact distinctly its own, but...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Thomas Hofweber explores four major metaphysical debates tied to ontology: the philosophy of arithmetic, the metaphysics of ordinary objects, the problem of universals, and the nature of the fact-like aspect of reality. He defends metaphysics as having some questions of fact distinctly its own, but rejects several metaphysical approaches. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-361) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191822650 0191822655 9780191082504 0191082503 |