هستی شناسی (مسائل مرکزی فلسفه) [کتاب انگلیسی] | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction: Being as such......Page 17
Part I: Pure philosophical ontology......Page 27
1. What it is to be (on Heidegger)......Page 28
2. Combinatorial ontology......Page 58
3. Why there is something rather than nothing......Page 105
4. Why there is only one logically contingent actual world......Page 125
5. Concepts of existence in philosophical logic and the analysis of being qua being......Page 150
Part II: Applied ontology and the metaphysics of science......Page 171
6. Ontological commitment (on Quine)......Page 172
7. Appearance, reality, substance, transcendence......Page 198
8. Physical entities: space, time, matter and causation, physical states of affairs and events, natural laws......Page 209
9. Abstract entities, particular and universal: numbers, sets, properties, qualities, relations, propositions and possibilities, logical, mathematical and metaphysical laws......Page 222
10. Subjectivity of mind in the world of objective physical facts......Page 249
11. God, a divine supernatural mind?......Page 269
12. Ontology of culture: language, art and artefacts......Page 281
Conclusion: scientific-philosophical ontology......Page 291
Notes......Page 297
Bibliography......Page 325
Index......Page 345