E.J. Lowe and Ontology

1. Introduction Miroslaw Szatkowski

Part I: Metaphysics in the Manner of E.J. Lowe

2. Lowe's Progress

John Heil

3. The Possibility of Metaphysics

Christian Kanzian

4. The Plausibility of Lowe's Metaphilosophy

Chris Daly

Part II: The Four-Category Ontology

5. Jonathan Lowe's Theory of Predication

Peter van Inwagen

6. Lowe's Eliminativism about Relations and the Analysis of Relational Inherence

Markku Keinaenen

7. The Fundamentality and Non-Fundamentality of Ontological Categories

Jani Hakkarainen

8. The Four-Category Ontology modulo Topological Ontology

Janusz Kaczmarek

9. Kinds and Explanations: From the Four-Category Ontology to Formal Causation

Petter Sandstad & Ludger Jansen

Part III: Persons, Minds, and Agency

10. Persons and Physical Objects

Peter Simons

11. Persons, Minds, Souls and Selves: The Difference between the Mental and the Psychological

Kevin Mulligan

12. Lowe's Non-Cartesian Dualism

Eric T. Olson

13. Lowe's Dualist Construal of Mental Causation

Max Kistler

14. Causal and Non-Causal Aspects of Agency in Lowe's Ontology of Action

Michal Glowala

Part IV: Powers and Persistence

15. Powers Are Not Enough

Uwe Meixner

16. A Causal Theory of Constitution and Persistence

Rognvaldur D. Ingthorsson