Cumpa Studies in the Ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032246-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 298 Seiten

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Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians. Although he was a student of Bergmann, he influenced the development of Bergmann's metaphysics considerably. No philosopher other than Grossmann defends perception to that degree against the persistent skeptical arguments. He characterizes his epistemological positions as radical empiricism and radical realism. By realism Grossmann mainly means the view that the material things we perceive exist. It is thus also an ontological position and closely related to his empiricism. Grossmann's empiricism is radical insofar as he claims that entities of all categories are perceptible, even numbers and universals. Grossmann's universal realism advocates a theory of abstract categories against the current naturalism. He distinguishes between the world and the physical universe. The latter is the domain of science; the former is the subject of ontology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cumpa, Javier

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;Foreword By ERWIN TEGTMEIER;9
3;Introduction By JAVIER CUMPA;11
4;Abbreviations of Grossmann’s Works;14
5;• GROSSMANN STUDIES •;15
6;1. Grossmann on Relations and Intentionality By LAIRD ADDIS;17
7;2. It is about Time By EDWIN B. ALLAIRE;33
8;3. Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontology By DAVID M. ARMSTRONG;35
9;4. One- and Two- Level Acts: Bergmann and Grossmann on Realism By GUIDO BONINO;51
10;5. Facts By PANAYOT BUTCHVAROV;77
11;6. What is a Universal? Main Problems of Property Theory By JAVIER CUMPA;101
12;7. Dualism and the Mind-Body Trilemma By VOLKER GADENNE;125
13;8. Grossmann and the Ontological Status of Categories By PAUL SYMINGTON & JORGE J. E. GRACIA;139
14;9. The Intersection of the Mind and the World: Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontology of Knowledge By GREG JESSON;165
15;10. Grossmann on Property-Instances and Existence: Suárez’s Way Out By JAMES P. MORELAND;183
16;11. Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond By PETER SIMONS;197
17;12. Three Ontologies of the Iowa School: Categories and Composition By ERWIN TEGTMEIER;217
18;13. Some Reflections on Grossmann on the Entity Existence By FRED WILSON;235
19;• APPENDIXES •;273
20;I. Materialism and the New Folk Philosophy By REINHARDT GROSSMANN;275
21;II. A List of the Published Works of R. Grossmann;290
22;III. A Bibliography on R. Grossmann’s Philosophy;294
23;Bibliography;297