
Ontological Categories
editiones scholasticae (Publisher)
Published on 17. February 2011
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Hardback
234 pages
978-3-86838-099-6 (ISBN)
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This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology. There are substance ontologies, there are trope ontologies and there are fact ontologies. Ontologies differ also with respect to the number of their categories. There are ontologies with few and ontologies with many categories. Some advocate more or less explicitly only one category. The so-called descriptive metaphysics which is satisfied with explaining the categories of common sense admits the greatest number of categories. The contributors of this volume address the central problems of the theory categories in the classical, phenomenological and analytical tradition.
With contributions of Javier Cumpa, Herbert Hochberg, Ingvar Johansson, Jonathan Lowe, Donald W. Mertz, Roberto Poli, Erwin Tegtmeier and Fred Wilson.
With contributions of Javier Cumpa, Herbert Hochberg, Ingvar Johansson, Jonathan Lowe, Donald W. Mertz, Roberto Poli, Erwin Tegtmeier and Fred Wilson.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Heusenstamm
Germany
Target group
Philosophen, Ontologen
Dimensions
Height: 150 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86838-099-6 (9783868380996)
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Javier Cumpa teaches philosophy at Complutense University of Madrid. His areas of research include the ontology of categories, the theory of universals, mereology and philosophy of science.
Erwin Tegtmeier, Professor of philosophy at the University of Mannheim. His areas of research are ontology, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, philosophy of time and early phenomenology.
Erwin Tegtmeier, Professor of philosophy at the University of Mannheim. His areas of research are ontology, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, philosophy of time and early phenomenology.