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Existence : essays in ontology / Peter van Inwagen.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2014ISBN:
  • 9781107047129 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111 23
LOC classification:
  • B945.V353 E95 2014
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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