Necessary Beings
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Author |
: Bob Hale |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2013-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199669578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199669570 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Necessary Beings by : Bob Hale
Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.
Author |
: Daniel D. De Haan |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 442 |
Release |
: 2020-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004434523 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004434526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing by : Daniel D. De Haan
In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan examines the primary notions being, thing, one, and necessary and their roles in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece.
Author |
: Alexander R. Pruss |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2018-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191063886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191063886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Necessary Existence by : Alexander R. Pruss
Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things.
Author |
: Ivette Fred-Rivera |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2018-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192510600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192510606 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being Necessary by : Ivette Fred-Rivera
What is the relationship between ontology and modality - between what there is, and what there could be, must be, or might have been? Bob Hale interwove these two strands of metaphysics throughout his long and distinguished career, putting forward his theses in his book, Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them (OUP 2013). Hale addressed questions of ontology and modality on a number of fronts: through the development of a Fregean approach to ontology, an essentialist theory of modality, and in his work on neo-logicism in the philosophy of mathematics. The essays in this volume engage with these themes in Hale's work in order to progress our understanding of ontology, modality, and the relations between them. Some directly address questions in modal metaphysics, drawing on ontological concerns, while others raise questions in modal epistemology and of its links to matters of ontology, such as the challenge to give an epistemology of essence. Several essays also engage with questions of what might be called 'modal ontology': the study of whether and what things exist necessarily or contingently. Such issues have an important bearing on the kinds of semantic commitments engendered in logic and mathematics (to the existence of sets, or numbers, or properties, and so on) and the extent to which one's ontology of necessary beings interacts with other plausible assumptions and commitments.
Author |
: Alexander R. Pruss |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198746898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019874689X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Necessary Existence by : Alexander R. Pruss
Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defence of the hypothesis that there is a necessarily existing being capable of providing an ultimate foundation for the existence of all things.
Author |
: William C. Wimsatt |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 480 |
Release |
: 2007-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674015452 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674015456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings by : William C. Wimsatt
Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics, trying to understand the world by breaking it down. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to such reductionism. Wimsatt argues that today’s scientists seek to atomize phenomena only to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate at different levels.
Author |
: Immanuel Kant |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 1894 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015026496524 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kant's Inaugural Dissertation of 1770 by : Immanuel Kant
Author |
: Bertrand Russell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:444187827 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis In praise of idleness by : Bertrand Russell
Verzamelde opstellen van de Engelse wijsgeer (1872-1970)
Author |
: Avicenna |
Publisher |
: FARMS |
Total Pages |
: 932 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105114123602 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis الشفاء: الالهيات by : Avicenna
Within this emanative scheme we encounter some of the basic ideas of Avicenna's religious and political philosophy, including his discussion of the divine attributes, divine providence, the Hereafter, and the ideal, "virtuous" city with its philosopher-prophet as the recipient and conveyer of the revealed law, a human link between the celestial and the terrestrial worlds."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: Penelope Mackie |
Publisher |
: Clarendon Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2006-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191534102 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191534102 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Things Might Have Been by : Penelope Mackie
How are we to distinguish between the essential and accidental properties of things such as individual people, cats, trees, and tables? Almost everyone agrees that such individuals could have been different, in certain respects, from the way that they actually are. But what are the respects in which they could not have been different: which of their properties are essential to their being the individuals that they are? And why? Following the revival of interest among analytic philosophers in essentialism and de re modality generated by the work of Kripke and others in the 1970s, these questions have been the subject of intense, yet still unresolved, debate. In this book, Penelope Mackie challenges most of the answers that have been given to these questions. Via a critical examination of rival theories, she arrives at what she calls 'minimalist essentialism', an unorthodox theory according to which ordinary individuals have relatively few interesting essential properties, and intuitions that appear to support stronger versions of essentialism are interpreted as consistent with the theory. The topics discussed include the rivalry between the interpretation of de re modality in terms of 'identity across possible worlds' and its interpretation in terms of David Lewis's counterpart theory, some notorious modal puzzles generated by the theory that individuals exist with different properties in different possible worlds, the notion of an individual essence, Kripke's 'necessity of origin' thesis, and the widely held view that there are sortal properties that are essential properties of the things to which they belong. The book also includes a discussion of the relation between essentialism about individuals and essentialism about natural kinds, and a critical examination of the connection between semantics and natural kind essentialism.