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| Title: | Acquaintance, Ontology, & Knowledge
: Collected Essays in Ontology |
| Series: | (Philosophical Analysis, Volume 19) |
| Author: | Fred Wilson |
| ISBN: | 3938793589 : 9783938793589 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 150x210mm |
| Pages: | 726 |
| Weight: | 1.135 Kg. |
| Published: | Ontos Verlag - June 2007 |
| List Price: | 144.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Metaphysics & ontology |
These essays bring together forty years of work in ontology. Intentionality, negation, universals, bare particulars, tropes, general facts, relations, the myth of the 'myth of the given', are among the topics covered. Bergmann, Quine, Sellars, Russell, Wittgenstein, Hume, Bradley, Hochberg, Dummett, Frege, Plato, are among the philosophers discussed. The essays criticise non-Humean notions of cause; they criticise the notion that besides simple atomic facts there are also negative facts and general facts. They defend a realism of properties as universals, against nominalism; bare particulars; a (qualified) realism with regard to logical form; a Russellian account of relations; and an account of minds and intentionality, which is opposed to materialism, but is also a form of (methodological) behaviourism. In general, the ontology is one of logical atomism and empiricist throughout, rooted in a Principle of Acquaintance.
Acquaintance, Ontology and Knowledge; Hume and Derrida on Language and Meaning; Empiricism: Principles and Problems; On the Hausmans' "New Approach to Berkeley's Ideal Reality"; Bradley's Account of Relations and its Impact on Empiricism; Moore's Refutation of Idealism; Bareness, as in 'bare particular': Its ubiquity; Universals, Bare Particulars and Tropes; The World and Reality in Tractatus; Grossman on the Categorial Structure of the World; Human Action and a Natural Science of Human Being; Marras on Sellars on Thought and Language; Effability, Ontology and Method: Themes from Bergmann's Ontology; The Aboutness of Thought; Language and (Other?) Abstracts Objects; Implicit Definition Once Again; Dummett's History: Critical Review of Michael Dummett's Origins of Analytical Philosophy.
