| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Central problems of philosophy
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Central problems of philosophy (Montréal, Québec)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-327) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: being as such -- Part I: Pure philosophical ontology -- 1. What it is to be (on Heidegger) -- 2. Combinatorial ontology -- 3. Why there is something rather than nothing -- 4. Why there is only one logically contingent actual world -- 5. Concepts of existence in philosophical logic and the analysis of being qua being -- Part II: Applied antology and the metaphysics of science -- 6. Ontological commitment (on Quine) -- 7. Appearance, reality, substance, transcendence -- 8. Physical entities: space, time, matter and causation, physical states of affairs and events, natural laws -- 9. Abstract entities, particular and universal: numbers, sets, properties, qualities, relations, propositions, possibilities, logical, mathematical, and metaphysical laws -- 10. Subjectivity of mind in the world of objective physical facts -- 11. God: a divine supernatural mind? -- 12. Ontology of culture, language, art and artefacts Conclusion: scientific-philosophical ontology. |
| Summary |
The philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist is one of the core concerns of metaphysics. This is an introduction to ontology that provides readers with an account of the central ideas of the subject of being. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ontology.
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Ontology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jacquette, Dale. Ontology. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002 0773524630 (OCoLC)50581778 |
| ISBN |
9780773582675 (electronic book) |
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0773582673 (electronic book) |
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0773524630 |
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9780773524637 |
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0773524649 |
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9780773524644 |
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