Posts Tagged ‘ ontology ’

Can Life Be a Criterion of Persistence Through Time? A Discussion of Some Ontological Thesis by Peter van Inwagen

venerdì, 1 Aprile, 2011
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Prajna-Vihara, The Journal of Philosophy and Religion, Assumption University of Bangkok, vol. 5, 2, 2004, pp. 27-47 This work is centered upon some of the principal ontological topics to be found in the major texts by Peter van Inwagen. Almost all his philosophical works falls into about four general areas. 1. The problem of free…

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Pragmatism, Ontology and Ordinary Objects (by Lynne Baker)

giovedì, 3 Dicembre, 2009
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Lynne Baker’s Constitution Theory seems to be the farthest-reaching and yet the most subtly elaborated anti-reductive metaphysics available today. Its original theoretical contribution is a non-mereological theory of material constitution, which apparently (i) complies with modern natural science, and yet (ii) rescues the concrete everyday world, and ourselves in it, from ontological vanity or nothingness,…

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