Overview

Themes from Ontology, Mind and Logic celebrates Peter Simons’s admirable career. The book contains seventeen essays with themes ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology. The contributions by Fabrice Correia, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, Ingvar Johansson, Kathrin Koslicki, Uriah Kriegel, Wolfgang Künne, Edgar Morscher, Kevin Mulligan, Maria Elisabeth Reicher, Maria van der Schaar, Benjamin Schnieder, Johanna Seibt, Ted Sider, David Woodruff Smith, Mark Textor and Jan Woleński, tackle the problems that defined Simons’s work and insights into some of today’s most interesting and significant philosophical questions.

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Author:   Sandra Lapointe
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   91
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.685kg
ISBN:  

9789004302242

ISBN 10:   9004302247
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   24 July 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Part I: Ontology Fabrice CORREIA: Logical Grounding and First-Degree Entailments Ingvar JOHANSSON: Collections as One-and-Many—On the Nature of Numbers Kathrin KOSLICKI: In Defense of Substance Uriah KRIEGEL: How to Speak of Existence: A Brentanian Approach to (Linguistic and Mental) Ontological Commitment Maria Elisabeth REICHER: Computer-generated Music, Authorship, and Work Identity Benjamin SCHNIEDER: The Asymmetry of ‘Because’ Johanna SEIBT: Non-Transitive Parthood, Leveled Mereology, and the Representation of Emergent Parts of Processes Ted SIDER: Nothing Over and Above David WOODRUFF SMITH: On Basic Modes of Being: Metametaphysical Refl ections in Light of Whitehead, Husserl, Ingarden, Hintikka Part II: Mind Kevin MULLIGAN,: Annehmen, Phantasieren und Entertaining. Husserl und Meinong Mark TEXTOR: Meaning, Entertaining, and Phantasy Judgement Maria VAN DER SCHAAR: Th e Th ings We Call True Part III: Logic Bob HALE & Crispin WRIGHT: Bolzano’s Defi nition of Analytic Propositions Wolfgang KÜNNE: On Having a Property. Corrigenda in Bolzano’s Wissenschaftslehre Edgar MORSCHER: Th e Logic of Truth Jan WOLEŃSKI: An Analysis of Logical Determinism

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Sandra Lapointe is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. A Commonwealth alumna and a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, she completed her PhD in 2000 at the University of Leeds (UK) and held various research positions (Montreal, Luxembourg, France) before accepting tenure track jobs at Concordia University in Montreal and then at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She specializes in the history of analytical philosophy. Her published work include: New Anti-Kant (ed., with Clinton Tolley, 2014) Bolzano’s Theoretical Philosophy (2011); Qu’est-ce que l’analyse? (2008); and a number of other books, articles and book chapters. She is currently the Chief Editor of the Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy and coordinates the activities of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy.

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