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1 online resource (283 pages). |
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Contemporary scholasticism ; v. 1
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Contemporary scholasticism ; v. 1.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Categories and beyond -- What is an ontological category? / Peter van Inwagen -- Scholastic debates about beings of reason and contemporary analytical metaphysics / Daniel D. Novotný -- Metaphysical stucture -- What Is constituent ontology? / Michael J. Loux -- Elemental transformation in aristotle : three dilemmas for the traditional account / Anne Siebels Peterson -- Essential dependence, truthmaking, and mereology : then and now / Ross Inman -- Substance & accident -- Essence and ontology / E.J. Lowe -- An aristotelian argument against bare particulars / Lukáš Novák -- Ontology of number : is number an accident? / Prokop Sousedík & David Svoboda -- Existence -- Existential inertia / Edward Feser -- Aquinas vs. Buridan on essence and existence, and the commensurability of paradigms / Gyula Klima -- Modalities -- Potentiality in scholasticism (potentiae) and the contemporary debate on "Powers" / Edmund Runggaldier SJ -- Dispositional necessity and ontological possibility / David Peroutka OCD -- Optimal and the necessary in Leibniz' Mathematical framing of the compossible / Mark Falter -- Predication -- Interpretation(s) of predication / Uwe Meixner -- Towards a Thomistic theory of predication / Stanislav Sousedik -- Authors -- General index -- Index of persons. |
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| Summary |
Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, both in the analytic and continental traditions, metaphysics was deemed to be passé. The last few decades, however, have witnessed a remarkable growth of interest among analytic philosophers in various traditional metaphysical topics, such as modality, truth, causality, etc. which resulted in the emergence of various forms of analytic metaphysics. The new forms of metaphysics differ from its traditional forms mostly in their methodology (we may notice various applications of contemporary formal logical techniques) and in the range of propos. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Novák, Lukáš, 1978-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Metaphysics. Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2012 (OCoLC)795756025 |
| ISBN |
9783110322446 (e-book) |
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3110322447 (e-book) |
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3868381465 |
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9783868381467 |
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3110322161 |
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9783110322163 |
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9783868381467 |
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9783110322163 |
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