Wilson Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge

Collected Essays in Ontology
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032701-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 726 Seiten

Reihe: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Acknowledgments;18
3;TABLE OF CONTENTS;21
4;One Acquaintance, Ontology and Knowledge*;24
4.1;Appendix OneThe Mythology of the Myth of the Given: the Holism of Wilfrid Sellars;66
4.2;Appendix ThreeHow Not to Lose Your Mind;96
5;TwoHume and Derridaon Language and Meaning*;132
6;ThreeEmpiricism: Principles and Problems*;153
7;FourOn the Hausmans’“New Approach to Berkeley’sIdeal Reality”*;192
8;FiveBradley’s Account of Relations and ItsImpact on Empiricism*;219
9;SixMoore’s Refutation of Idealism*;249
10;SevenBurgersdijck, Coleridge, Bradley, Russell,Bergmann, Hochberg:Six Philosophers on the Ontology ofRelations*;299
11;EightBareness, as in “Bare” Particular:Its Ubiquity*;353
12;NINEUNIVERSALS, BARE PARTICULARSAND TROPES:THE ROLE OF A PRINCIPLE OFACQUAINTANCE IN ONTOLOGY;387
13;TenThe World and Reality in the Tractatus;423
14;ElevenGrossmann on theCategorial Structure of the World*;437
15;TwelveBergmann’s Hidden Aristotelianism*;467
16;ThirteenHuman Action and a Natural Science ofHuman Being*;521
17;FourteenMarras on Sellarson Thought and Language*;543
18;FifteenEffability, Ontology and Method:Themes from Bergmann’s Ontology*;561
19;SixteenThe Aboutness of Thought*;617
20;SeventeenLanguage and (Other ? ) Abstract Objects*;633
21;EighteenImplicit Definition Once Again*;677
22;NineteenDummett’s History:Critical Review of Michael Dummett’sOrigins of Analytical Philosophy *;707