Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Vesselin Petrov (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the last decades ontology has been successfully developed in many directions and has fostered various approaches for depicting the contemporary ontological landscapes. An important task is to outline recent thought on the conceptual interfaces between science and philosophy. The present volume opens up a view onto the plurality of different ontological schemes. The papers collected here discuss the interfaces between ontology and empirical research that are created by the notions of a whole, a thought, a number, a quality, an ability, a kind, notions of causation, dynamicity, and social objects, the application of relevant logical tools for the reconsideration of ontological paradigms, as well as the investigation of the consequences in cognitive sciences on the development of ontology.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS
Acknowledgements
Preface Vesselin Petrov
I. Analysis—synthesis Roberto Poli
II. How can we verify metaphysicalhypotheses? On necessary connections between metaphysics,ontology and science Bogdan Ogrodnik
III. Logical analysis and its ontologicalconsequences: Rise, fall and resurgence of intensional objects in contemporary philosophy Bruno Leclercq
IV. Causality: ontological principle or explanatory scheme? Anguel S. Stefanov
V. The metaphysics of secondary qualities: defending responseintentionalism Nenad Miščević
VI. Process ontology in the context of applied philosophy Vesselin Petrov
VII. Sparse and dense categories: what they tell us about natural kinds Lilia Gurova
VIII. Ontology of ability: a defense of the counterfactual analysis of ability Marina Bakalova
IX. Naturalizing mathematics and naturalizing ethics Fabrice Pataut
X. On the intricate interplay of logic and ontology Rosen Lutskanov
XI. The Politics of Radical Experience Michel Weber
XII. Towards a reistic social–historical philosophy* Nikolay Milkov
XIII. Revisiting Sartre’s Ontology of Embodiment in Being and Nothingness Dermot Moran
XIV. On the effects of a fictitious encounter between Alfred North Whitehead and Gilbert Simondon Emeline Deroo
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