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'The Abstract and the Concrete' draws together Peter Van Inwagen's essays in ontology from the last decade. They range over topics in meta-ontology, the author's distinctive version of platonism, mathematical fictionalism, analyticity, and colour.
Cover -- The Abstract and the Concrete: Further Essays in Ontology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I: META-ONTOLOGY -- 1: Modes of Being and Quantification -- 2: The Neo-Carnapians -- 3: Dispensing with Ontological Levels: An Illustration -- II: PLATONISM-OF A SORT -- 4: In Defense of Lightweight Platonism -- 5: Two Problems for a Truth-Centered Ontology -- 6: In Defense of Transcendent Universals -- III: TOPICS IN ONTOLOGY -- 7: Fictionalist Nominalism and Applied Mathematics -- 1. An Argument for Rejecting Nominalism -- 2. Against Fictionalist Nominalism
3. The Applied Arithmetical Fiction as a Conservative Extension of Nominalistically Acceptable Discourse -- 8: Against Analytic Existence Entailments -- Brief Appendix on Ryle and Counting -- 9: "Color is an Illusion" -- 1. Naïve Realism -- 2. Illusory Phenomena -- 3. A Question -- 4. An Answer -- 5. A Discussion of the Answer -- Bibliography -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]