Ontological Categories
by Cumpa, Javier; Tegtmeier, ErwinFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-08-31
Publisher(s): Ontos Verlag
Other versions by this Author
List Price: $89.95
Rent Textbook
Select for Price
Digital
$276.00*
New Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
Used Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
Summary
This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterise an ontology. There are substance ontologies, there are trope ontologies and there are fact ontologies. Ontologies differ also with respect to the number of their categories. There are ontologies with few and ontologies with many categories. Some advocate more or less explicitly only one category. The so-called descriptive metaphysics which is satisfied with explaining the categories of common sense admits the greatest number of categories. The contributors of this volume address the central problems of the theory categories in the classical, phenomenological and analytical tradition. With contributions of Javier Cumpa, Herbert Hochberg, Ingvar Johansson, Jonathan Lowe, Donald W Mertz, Roberto Poli, Erwin Tegtmeier and Fred Wilson.
Table of Contents
| Editors' Introduction: An Old, but ever New, World. The Old, but ever New, Problems | |
| Categories Studies | |
| Categoriality: Three Disputes Over the Structure of the World | p. 15 |
| Properties, Facts and Complexity | p. 67 |
| Order, Direction, Logical Priority and Ontological Categories | p. 89 |
| Ontological Categories: Why Four are Better than Two | p. 109 |
| Attribute Instances: The First Ontic Category | p. 127 |
| Ontological Categories, Latents and the Irrational | p. 153 |
| Categories and Categorial Entities | p. 165 |
| Including these Categories in One's Ontology, Excluding those Categories: Some Reflections on the Role of a Principle of Acquaintance in Ontology | p. 181 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.
This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.
By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.
Digital License
You are licensing a digital product for a set duration. Durations are set forth in the product description, with "Lifetime" typically meaning five (5) years of online access and permanent download to a supported device. All licenses are non-transferable.
More details can be found here.
A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.
Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.
Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.