The Abstract and the Concrete: Further Essays in Ontology

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Prof Peter van Inwagen (John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Notre Dame)

The Abstract and the Concrete

Further Essays in Ontology

Prof Peter van Inwagen (John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Notre Dame)

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Oxford University Press
12 April 2024

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

"The Abstract and the Concrete presents nine essays in ontology by Peter van Inwagen. Three of the essays concern topics in meta-ontology: the idea of multiple modes of being; Carnap's idea that the questions of ""ontology,"" insofar as they are meaningful at all, are questions about which linguistic frameworks it is expedient to employ; the concept of one object's being metaphysically more fundamental that another. Three of the essays concern various topics that pertain to the author's ""lower-case"" or ""lightweight"" platonism. (According to lightweight platonism, there are attributes-necessarily existent universals. These attributes are not constituents of substances, they cannot enter into causal relations, and it is false that an F object is F in virtue of instantiating the attribute of being F.) The remaining three essays examine proposed answers to particular ontological questions: the question of the validity of mathematical fictionalism; the question whether it is analytic that at any place at which some xs are arranged chairwise, there is there a chair; the question of what it means to say that colour is an illusion, and whether (in the sense determined) colour is an illusion."

By: Prof Peter van Inwagen (John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus University of Notre Dame)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 518g
ISBN: 9780192870452
ISBN 10: 0192870459
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 12 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered the Maurice Lectures at King's College, London, the Wilde Lectures on Natural Religion at Oxford University, the Stewart Lectures at Princeton University, and the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews, where he received an honorary doctorate. He is the author of eight books and over two hundred essays and critical studies, and has had three books and four international conferences devoted to his work.