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Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? : Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen / ed. by Mirosław Szatkowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophical Analysis ; 81Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 491 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110662498
  • 9783110662641
  • 9783110664812
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  • 110 23/ger
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Declaration of the Establishment of the International Society for Formal Ontology -- Introduction -- Part I: Peter van Inwagen – A Profile -- Interview with Peter van Inwagen -- Jonathan and Peter -- Part II: The Grounds and Ways of Metaphysics -- Where Are You Going, Metaphysics, and How Are You Getting There? – Grounding Theory as a Case Study -- On the Relevance of Grounds -- Metaphysical Differences -- A Van Inwagenian Defense of Constitutionalism -- Inside the Metaphysical Workshop -- Part III: Existence, Nonexistence, and Contradiction -- Existence Predicates -- Modes of Being and the Mind -- Imagining Fictional Characters -- Objects That Are Not Objects -- Part IV: Composition, Organisms, and Persons -- The Concept of Organism and Degrees of Composition -- Peter van Inwagen and the Hylomorphic Renaissance -- Remnant-Persons: A Commonsense Defence of Animalism -- Part V: Abstract Beings, Nominalism, and Infinity -- Van Inwagen’s Approach to Relations and the Theory of O-Roles -- Properties, Nominalisms and Things That Can Be Said -- Paraphrase: A (More or Less) Van Inwagenian Way toward (Moderate) Nominalism -- The Problem of the Many: Supervaluation, Rough Sets and Faultless Disagreement -- Realizability as a Kind of Truth-Making -- Part VI: God, Theodicy, and the Best World -- Optimalism in Explaining the Nature of Things -- Van Inwagen on Testimony and Contingency -- The Problem of Evil and Atonement -- Resisting Rowe’s No-Best-World Argument for Atheism -- Deficiencies of Gödel’s Ontological Proof -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Person Index -- Subject Index
Summary: The old philosophical discipline of metaphysics – after having been pronounced dead by many – has enjoyed a significant revival within the last thirty years, due to the application of the methods of analytic philosophy. One of the major contributors to this revival is the outstanding American metaphysician Peter van Inwagen. This volume brings together twenty-two scholars, who, in commemoration of Prof. van Inwagen's 75th birthday, ponder the future prospects of metaphysics in all the richness to which it has now returned. It is only natural that logical and epistemological reflections on the significance of metaphysics – sometimes called “meta-metaphysics” – play a considerable role in most of these papers. The volume is further enriched by an interview with Peter van Inwagen himself.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Declaration of the Establishment of the International Society for Formal Ontology -- Introduction -- Part I: Peter van Inwagen – A Profile -- Interview with Peter van Inwagen -- Jonathan and Peter -- Part II: The Grounds and Ways of Metaphysics -- Where Are You Going, Metaphysics, and How Are You Getting There? – Grounding Theory as a Case Study -- On the Relevance of Grounds -- Metaphysical Differences -- A Van Inwagenian Defense of Constitutionalism -- Inside the Metaphysical Workshop -- Part III: Existence, Nonexistence, and Contradiction -- Existence Predicates -- Modes of Being and the Mind -- Imagining Fictional Characters -- Objects That Are Not Objects -- Part IV: Composition, Organisms, and Persons -- The Concept of Organism and Degrees of Composition -- Peter van Inwagen and the Hylomorphic Renaissance -- Remnant-Persons: A Commonsense Defence of Animalism -- Part V: Abstract Beings, Nominalism, and Infinity -- Van Inwagen’s Approach to Relations and the Theory of O-Roles -- Properties, Nominalisms and Things That Can Be Said -- Paraphrase: A (More or Less) Van Inwagenian Way toward (Moderate) Nominalism -- The Problem of the Many: Supervaluation, Rough Sets and Faultless Disagreement -- Realizability as a Kind of Truth-Making -- Part VI: God, Theodicy, and the Best World -- Optimalism in Explaining the Nature of Things -- Van Inwagen on Testimony and Contingency -- The Problem of Evil and Atonement -- Resisting Rowe’s No-Best-World Argument for Atheism -- Deficiencies of Gödel’s Ontological Proof -- Authors of Contributed Papers -- Person Index -- Subject Index

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The old philosophical discipline of metaphysics – after having been pronounced dead by many – has enjoyed a significant revival within the last thirty years, due to the application of the methods of analytic philosophy. One of the major contributors to this revival is the outstanding American metaphysician Peter van Inwagen. This volume brings together twenty-two scholars, who, in commemoration of Prof. van Inwagen's 75th birthday, ponder the future prospects of metaphysics in all the richness to which it has now returned. It is only natural that logical and epistemological reflections on the significance of metaphysics – sometimes called “meta-metaphysics” – play a considerable role in most of these papers. The volume is further enriched by an interview with Peter van Inwagen himself.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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