The furniture of the world

Essays in ontology and metaphysics
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3503-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 335 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Rodopi Philosophical Studies

Seventeen essays make up the body of this anthology. Most of the authors are Latin Americans (although some of them work in other regions), and thus we might say that this volume is, in a very approximate sense, a showcase of recent Latin-American ontology and metaphysics. The remaining authors—Pierre Aubenque, Barry Smith, Lorenzo Peña and James Hamilton—are distinguished teachers who have had important contacts with the Latin-American philosophical community.
The articles in this anthology address some of the central questions in ontology and metaphysics: the possibility of a science of being (Aubenque), the different possible approaches to ontology (Hurtado), the recent application of ontology to informatics (Smith), guise theory and its Leibnizian antecedents (Herrera), the reduction of space and time to phenomenological properties (Rodríguez Larreta), the Newtonian ontology of space and time (Benítez and Robles), the relation between truth and the so-called “truth-makers” (Rodríguez Pereyra), the ontological position of the Pyrrhonic skeptic (Junqueira Smith), the limits and difficulties of metaphysical realism (Cabanchik, Pereda), the defense of physicalist or emergentist positions regarding the mental (Pérez), the metaphysical nature of persons (Naishtat), the ontology of cultural entities (Peña), political ontology (Nudler), the relation between ontology and literature (Hamilton), the ontology of art (Tomasini). Some of the works (e.g., those Aubenque and Robles) approach the question from a historical perspective: others examine the most recent philosophical literature on the problems focalized (e.g., those by Pérez and Rodríguez Pereyra), and others offer new approaches (e.g., those of Rodríguez Larreta, Peña or Nudler) to a specific problematic area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hurtado, Guillermo

Nudler, Oscar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Guillermo Hurtado and Oscar Nudler: Introduction
Ontology: General Outlooks
Pierre Aubenque: Relativity or Aporicity of Ontology? From Quine to Aristotle
Guillermo Hurtado: Paths of Ontology
Barry Smith: Ontology
The Structure of the World
Alejandro Herrera Ibáñez: A Neo-Leibnitzian Ontology: Héctor-Neri Castañeda’s Theory of Guises
Juan Rodríguez Larreta: Space, Time and Ontology: A Leibnizian Worldview
José A. Robles: Henry More’s Infinite Space and Isaac Barrow’s Adimensional Space
Laura Benítez: The New Ontology in the wake of Newton’s and Clarke’s Natural Philosophy
Language and Reality
Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pereyra: Why Truthmakers
Plínio Junqueira Smith: Truth, Ontology, and Deflationism
Carlos Pereda: World: A Tense Concept
Samuel Manuel Cabanchik: The Subject of Metaphysics
Bodies, Minds and Persons
Diana I. Pérez: Dualism and Physicalism in Contemporary Philosophy of the Mind
Francisco Naishtat: Personal Identity and Ontology in P.F. Strawson: from Analytic Reception to Paul Ricœur
Ontology of Culture, Politics, Literature and Art
Oscar Nudler: Modern Political Ontology: Evolution and Revolution
Lorenzo Peña: Cultural Entities
Alejandro Tomasini Bassols: Ontology of the Work of Art
James Hamilton: Borges and Authorial Intentions