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Author:   Leila Haaparanta (Professor of History and Philosophy, Professor of History and Philosophy, University of Tampere) ,  Heikki Koskinen (Research Doctor, Research Doctor, Academy of Finland)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.90cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780199890576

ISBN 10:   0199890579
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   02 August 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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"

Reviews

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

[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

<br> 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<p><br>

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

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

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