Name: Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge: Collected Essays in Ontology (Philosophische Analyse (in English)
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Author: Fred Wilson
ISBN: 9783110326659

portada Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge: Collected Essays in Ontology (Philosophische Analyse (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

De Gruyter

Author

Fred Wilson

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

754

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9783110326659

Synopsis "Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge: Collected Essays in Ontology (Philosophische Analyse (in English)"

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 criticize non-Humean notions of cause; they criticize 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.