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Central Problems of Philosophy Ser.: Ontology by Dale Jacquette (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-100773524649

ISBN-139780773524644

eBay Product ID (ePID)2352009

Product Key Features

Number of Pages367 Pages

Publication NameOntology

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

SubjectMetaphysics

TypeTextbook

AuthorDale Jacquette

Subject AreaPhilosophy

SeriesCentral Problems of Philosophy Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Reviews"Jacquette offers a clear and powerful vision of ontology. The book is very well written, very well organized, its theses are clear, and it is packed with interesting material." John Divers, University of Leeds

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number7

Dewey Decimal111

SynopsisIn the first part of the book, Dale Jacquette explores questions of pure philosophical ontology: what is meant by the concept of being, why does something exist rather than nothing, and why there is only one logically contingent actual world. The author argues that logic provides the only possible answers to these fundamental problems of pure ontology. In the second part of the book Jacquette examines issues of applied scientific ontology and provides a critical survey of some of the most influential traditional ontologies, such as the distinction between appearance and reality and the categories of substance and transcendence. The ontology of physical entities - space, time, matter, and causation - are examined as well as the ontology of abstract entities - sets, numbers, properties, relations, and propositions. The special problems posed by the subjectivity of mind and of God are also explored. The book concludes with a chapter on the ontology of culture, language, and art., This introduction to ontology - the philosophical study of what exists and what it means for something to exist - will provide students of metaphysics with a comprehensive account of the central ideas at the heart of the subject of being.