Quo Vadis, Metaphysics?: Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Quo Vadis, Metaphysics?

Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen

Edited by: Mirosław Szatkowski

Volume 81 in the series Philosophical Analysis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664812

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About this book

The old philosophical discipline of metaphysics – after having been pronounced dead by many – has enjoyed a significant revival within the last thirty years, due to the application of the methods of analytic philosophy. One of the major contributors to this revival is the outstanding American metaphysician Peter van Inwagen. This volume brings together twenty-two scholars, who, in commemoration of Prof. van Inwagen's 75th birthday, ponder the future prospects of metaphysics in all the richness to which it has now returned. It is only natural that logical and epistemological reflections on the significance of metaphysics – sometimes called “meta-metaphysics” – play a considerable role in most of these papers. The volume is further enriched by an interview with Peter van Inwagen himself.

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Mirosław Szatkowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
The Declaration of the Establishment of the International Society for Formal Ontology Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction Mirosław Szatkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Peter van Inwagen – A Profile
Interview with Peter van Inwagen Mirosław Szatkowski and Peter van Inwagen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Jonathan and Peter Elisabeth M. Bolduc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Part II: The Grounds and Ways of Metaphysics
Where Are You Going, Metaphysics, and How Are You Getting There? – Grounding Theory as a Case Study Gila Sher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
On the Relevance of Grounds Benjamin Schnieder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Metaphysical Differences Uwe Meixner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
A Van Inwagenian Defense of Constitutionalism Anna-Sofia Maurin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Inside the Metaphysical Workshop Carl J. Posy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Part III: Existence, Nonexistence, and Contradiction
Existence Predicates Friederike Moltmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Modes of Being and the Mind Kevin Mulligan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Imagining Fictional Characters Takashi Yagisawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Objects That Are Not Objects Graham Priest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Part IV: Composition, Organisms, and Persons
The Concept of Organism and Degrees of Composition Peter Simons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Peter van Inwagen and the Hylomorphic Renaissance William Jaworski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Remnant-Persons: A Commonsense Defence of Animalism Alfredo Tomasetta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Part V: Abstract Beings, Nominalism, and Infinity
Van Inwagen’s Approach to Relations and the Theory of O-Roles Francesco Orilia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Properties, Nominalisms and Things That Can Be Said Andrea C. Bottani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Paraphrase: A (More or Less) Van Inwagenian Way toward (Moderate) Nominalism Christian Kanzian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
The Problem of the Many: Supervaluation, Rough Sets and Faultless Disagreement Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Realizability as a Kind of Truth-Making Øystein Linnebo and Stewart Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Part VI: God, Theodicy, and the Best World
Optimalism in Explaining the Nature of Things Nicholas Rescher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Van Inwagen on Testimony and Contingency Chris Daly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
The Problem of Evil and Atonement Eleonore Stump Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Resisting Rowe’s No-Best-World Argument for Atheism Dean Zimmerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
Deficiencies of Gödel’s Ontological Proof Mirosław Szatkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
Authors of Contributed Papers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Person Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	489

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries (analytic philosophy, metaphysics, ontology)
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 491
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
Keywords: Analytic philosophy; meta-ontology; being; infinity

eBook

Published: November 18, 2019
ISBN: 9783110664812

Hardcover

Published: November 18, 2019
ISBN: 9783110662498