Essays On Essence And Existence
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Essays On Essence And Existence
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Author : Bob Hale
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-03-26
Essays On Essence And Existence written by Bob Hale and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-26 with Philosophy categories.
Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words--verbal definitions-and to things--real definitions--and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings.
Essays On Essence And Existence
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Author : Bob Hale
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-25
Essays On Essence And Existence written by Bob Hale and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-25 with Philosophy categories.
Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings—including several previously unpublished—by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of language. They display Hale's innovative approach to some of the most fundamental issues in philosophy, in dialogue (and, in some cases, in collaboration) with other leading philosophers. The notion of a definition is examined as it applies both to words—verbal definitions-and to things—real definitions—and the relations between these are brought out in order to address problems in the metaphysics of necessity and the semantics and epistemology of modality. Hale argues for an essentialist theory of the source of necessity and our knowledge of it, and provides rigorous and inventive responses to problems such a theory might face. This theoretical framework is applied to the recently influential truthmaking approach to semantics and logic, developing an exact truthmaker account of universal quantification and modal statements. Other topics covered include the Fregean theory of ontological categories, the status of second-order logic, the metaphysics of numbers, and the nature of analytic propositions. The volume opens with a substantial introduction by Kit Fine, providing a critical examination of Hale's philosophy, and closes with a complete bibliography of Hale's writings.
Thematic Distinction Between Essence And Existence
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Author : James Alabi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-21
Thematic Distinction Between Essence And Existence written by James Alabi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-21 with categories.
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, language: English, abstract: The terms essence and existence have dominated philosophical discussions for centuries, at least from the era of Plato up to the contemporary times. The central issue at the heart of this discourse in the preliminary stage had to do with the question of what actually makes an essence of an existing entity. For example, if you say God, philosophers will probe further to ask: what is the essence of God? In other words, 'what are those characteristics that are truly exclusive to God? If, again, you say a Satsuma (a type of orange) exists, then one will be prompted to ask as to what features distinguish it from a tangerine. That is, what are those distinctive qualities - essentially immaterial - that will not make me call an existential Satsuma a tangerine? What the inquirer is demanding is simply something more than mere the Satsuma or any of the accidental features like colour, taste, etc. Questions have also been raised in terms of what actually exists as against what is believed to exist. The discourse quickly like wild fire moved from the level of mere conceptualizing the terms to the level of philosophers trying to find out which of essence and existence precedes each other. In other words, granted, at least, at level of assumption that both human and objects exist, philosophers are asking whether their essence precedes their existence. The battle to resolve this crisis of concepts pitted modern Christian philosophers like Bishop George Berkeley and Immanuel Kant against contemporary existentialists like Jean Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger. The former school, led by Berkeley in its submission had argued that essence precedes existence, while the latter, championed by extensively by Sartre disagrees, saying existence precedes essence. However, there are other variations to the discourse but it is sufficient for the scope of this paper to limit discussion to these tw
Existence And Being
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Author : Martin Heidegger
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Existence And Being written by Martin Heidegger and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Philosophy categories.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Existence And Being
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Author : Martin Heidegger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Existence And Being written by Martin Heidegger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Existentialism categories.
Essays On The Perception Of An External Universe
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Author : Lady Mary Shepherd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1827
Essays On The Perception Of An External Universe written by Lady Mary Shepherd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1827 with Causation categories.
Existence Of God
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Author : John R. Jacobson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Existence Of God written by John R. Jacobson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Philosophy categories.
A collection of essays from the Basic Issues Forum, focusing on intercultural, interdisciplinary responses to the issue The Existence of God proposed by the Basic Issues Forum of Washington and Jefferson College. Essays include such topics as Is Existence' a Desirable Attribute of a Real God? by Robert F. Streetman, Jungian Archetypes and the Transcendent Image by Nancy Tenfelde Clasby, The Universe as Controlled Accident' by Conrad Hyers, and The Ethics of Unbelief: Philosophy, Responsibility, and the Ratio Anselmi' by G. Scott Davis.
Existence
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Author : Peter van Inwagen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-10
Existence written by Peter van Inwagen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Literary Collections categories.
This is a collection of Peter van Inwagen's recent essays on ontology and meta-ontology.
God S Existence And Other Philosophical Essays
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Author : Paul Gerard Horrigan
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2007
God S Existence And Other Philosophical Essays written by Paul Gerard Horrigan and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Categories Of Being
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Author : Leila Haaparanta
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012-07-18
Categories Of Being written by Leila Haaparanta and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-18 with Philosophy categories.
This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing, it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Throughout the volume, essays focus on metaphysica generalis, or the systematic study of the most general categories of being. Beginning with Aristotle and his Categories , the volume goes on to trace metaphyscis and logic through the late ancient and Arabic traditions, examining the views of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, contributors engage with Leibniz's metaphysics, Kant's critique of metaphysics, the relation between logic and ontology in Hegel, and Bolzano's views. Subsequent chapters address: Charles S. Peirce's logic and metaphysics; the relevance of set-theory to metaphysics; Meinong's theory of objects; Husserl's formal ontology; early analytic philosophy; C.I. Lewis and his relation to Russell; and the relations between Frege, Carnap, and Heidegger. Surveying metaphysics through to the contemporary age, essays explore W.V. Quine's attitude towards metaphysics; Wilfrid Sellars's relation to antidescriptivism as it connects to Kripke's; the views of Putnam and Kaplan; Peter F. Strawson's and David M. Armstrong's metaphysics; Trope theory; and its relation to Popper's conception of three worlds. The volume ends with a chapter on transcendental philosophy as ontology. In each chapter, contributors approach their topics not merely in an historical and exegetical fashion, but also engage critically with the thought of the philosophers whose work they discuss, offering synthesis and original philosophical thought in the volume, in addition to very extensive and well-informed analysis and interpretation of important philosophical texts. The volume will serve as an essential reference for scholars of metaphysics and logic.