This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reality is addressed, starting out from the view that universals exist but only in the spatiotemporal world (immanent realism). In attempting to bring Aristotle's ontology up-to-date, the author relies very much on the thinking of Edmund Husserl, conceiving the cement of the universe as Husserlian relations of existential dependence and regarding intentionality as a non-reducible category in the ontology of mind. The work is thoroughly realistic in spirit, but large parts of it should nonetheless be of interest to conceptualists and nominalists, too.
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Ontological Investigations
An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man and Soceity
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An Inquiry into the Categories of Nature, Man and Soceity
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Mind & Body in PhilosophyTable of contents
- CONTENTS
- Foreword to the second edition
- Preface
- 1. Ontology
- 2. Irreductive Materialism
- 3. States of Affairs and Qualities
- 4. Exclusive and Inclusive Qualities
- 5. Actions and Functions
- 6. Patterns, Changes, and Pure Gestalten
- 7. Self-Sustaining Gestalten and Gestalten Causa Sui
- 8. External, Internal, and Grounded Relations
- 9. Existential Dependence
- 10. Container Space and Relational Space
- 11. Tendency
- 12. Efficient Causality
- 13. Intentionality
- 14. Nature: Parts and Wholes Without Intentionality
- 15. Man and Society: Nested Intentionality
- 16. Epistemological Positions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Appendix 1: An aphoristic summary of Ontological Investigations
- Appendix 2: Determinables as Universals
- Appendix 3: Ontologies and Concepts. Two Proposals
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