
On Metaphysics
Roderick Chisholm(Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Published on 30. June 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
184 pages
978-0-8166-6844-1 (ISBN)
Description
On Metaphysics was first published in 1989.On Metaphysics brings together eighteen essays by a self-described analytic philosopher who is concerned with redirecting the linguistic emphasis in contemporary philosophy toward the traditional questions of metaphysics. The essays explore the most fundamental categories of reality: substance and attribute; parts and wholes; human freedom and the self; coming into being and passing away; and the nature of objective reference. Chisholm combines an "internal" approach to theory of knowledge with an "intentional" approach to metaphysics. The book thus presupposes that the self is better known to the self that is any other individual thing, and that our knowledge of ourselves provides us with the key to understanding the problems of ontology.Chisholm has made both minor and major revisions in many of the essays since their initial publication. "The Categories," written expressly for this book, represents a summation of the ontology set forth in On Metaphysics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-6844-1 (9780816668441)
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Roderick M. Chisholm was professor of philosophy at Brown University, where he also held the Andrew W. Mellon chair in humanities for many years. Minnesota has published two of his books, The First Person: An Essay on Reference and Intentionality (1981) and The Foundations of Knowing (1982).