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Categories of Being Leila Haaparanta (Professor of History and Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere)

Categories of Being By Leila Haaparanta (Professor of History and Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere)

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This volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought.

Categories of Being Summary

Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic by Leila Haaparanta (Professor of History and Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere)

This edited volume is a comprehensive presentation of views on the relations between metaphysics and logic from Aristotle through twentieth century philosophers who contributed to the return of metaphysics in the analytic tradition. The collection combines interest in logic and its history with interest in analytical metaphysics and the history of metaphysical thought. By so doing, it adds both to the historical understanding of metaphysical problems and to contemporary research in the field. Throughout the volume, essays focus on metaphysica generalis, or the systematic study of the most general categories of being. Beginning with Aristotle and his Categories , the volume goes on to trace metaphyscis and logic through the late ancient and Arabic traditions, examining the views of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, contributors engage with Leibniz's metaphysics, Kant's critique of metaphysics, the relation between logic and ontology in Hegel, and Bolzano's views. Subsequent chapters address: Charles S. Peirce's logic and metaphysics; the relevance of set-theory to metaphysics; Meinong's theory of objects; Husserl's formal ontology; early analytic philosophy; C.I. Lewis and his relation to Russell; and the relations between Frege, Carnap, and Heidegger. Surveying metaphysics through to the contemporary age, essays explore W.V. Quine's attitude towards metaphysics; Wilfrid Sellars's relation to antidescriptivism as it connects to Kripke's; the views of Putnam and Kaplan; Peter F. Strawson's and David M. Armstrong's metaphysics; Trope theory; and its relation to Popper's conception of three worlds. The volume ends with a chapter on transcendental philosophy as ontology. In each chapter, contributors approach their topics not merely in an historical and exegetical fashion, but also engage critically with the thought of the philosophers whose work they discuss, offering synthesis and original philosophical thought in the volume, in addition to very extensive and well-informed analysis and interpretation of important philosophical texts. The volume will serve as an essential reference for scholars of metaphysics and logic.

Categories of Being Reviews

[P]erhaps the most useful contribution made by this historical survey of the subject is to show that metaphysics is not only still alive, it is also continuing to evolve. * Graham Stevens, Mind *
A valuable survey and rigorous examination of the categories of being, of the development of metaphysics over two and a half thousand years. * Stephen Read, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Categories of Being provides an impressive overview and critical discussion of metaphysical debates that have taken place over more than two millennia. * Fabrice Correia, Dialectica *

About Leila Haaparanta (Professor of History and Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere)

Leila Haaparanta is Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere Heikki Koskinen is Research Doctor at the Academy of Finland

Table of Contents

Introduction ; Leila Haaparanta and Heikki J. Koskinen ; Chapter 1. Being, Categories, and Universal Reference in Aristotle, Michael J. Loux ; Chapter 2. Dividing Being: Before and After Avicenna, Taneli Kukkonen ; Chapter 3. The Metaphysics of the Categories in John Duns Scotus, Simo Knuuttila ; Chapter 4. Ockham on Being, Calvin Normore ; Chapter 5. Leibniz (and Ockham) on the Language of Thought or How the True Metaphysics is Derived from the True Logic, Henrik Lagerlund ; Chapter 6. The Critique of Pure Reason as Metaphysics, Olli Koistinen ; Chapter 7. The Relation of Logic to Ontology in Hegel, Paul Redding ; Chapter 8. Bolzano's Universe: Metaphysics, Logic and Truth, Arianna Betti ; Chapter 9. Charles S. Peirce: Pragmatism, Logic, and Metaphysics, Torjus Midtgarden ; Chapter 10. Georg Cantor's Paradise, Metaphysics, and Husserlian Logic, Claire Ortiz Hill ; Chapter 11. To be and/or not to be: The Objects of Meinong and Husserl, Peter Simons ; Chapter 12. Logic and Metaphysics in Early Analytic Philosophy, Michael Beaney ; Chapter 13. Logic, Modality, and Metaphysics in Early Analytic Philosophy: C. I. Lewis against Russell, Sanford Shieh ; Chapter 14. On Being and Being: Frege between Carnap and Heidegger, Leila Haaparanta ; Chapter 15. Quine, Predication, and the Categories of Being, Heikki J. Koskinen ; Chapter 16. Wilfrid Sellars' Anti-Descriptivism, Kevin Scharp ; Chapter 17. Strawson's Descriptive Metaphysics, Hans-Johann Glock ; Chapter 18. D. M. Armstrong and the Recovery of Ontology, Keith Campbell ; Chapter 19. On Tropic Realism, Ilkka Niiniluoto ; Chapter 20. Transcendental Philosophy as Ontology, Sami Pihlstrom

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9780199890576
0199890579
Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic by Leila Haaparanta (Professor of History and Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere)
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2012-08-02
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