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Mind, Values, and Metaphysics

Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan - Volume 1

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  • Deep metaphysical analyses of the notion of truth-making

  • Discussion of the notion of explanation in metaphysics

  • Overview of Austrian philosophy from Bolzano to Wittgenstein

  • A complete bibliography of Kevin Mulligan's work

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Anne Reboul
    Pages 1-15
  3. Metaphysics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. The Truth About Predicates and Connectives

      • Johannes Stern
      Pages 63-78
    3. Truth-Makers and Convention T

      • Jan WoleÅ„ski
      Pages 79-84
    4. From Grounding to Truth-Making: Some Thoughts

      • Fabrice Correia
      Pages 85-98
    5. Tropes and Truth

      • Keith Lehrer, Joseph Tolliver
      Pages 109-116
    6. The Facts of Tropes

      • Herbert Hochberg
      Pages 117-140
    7. Two Problems for Resemblance Nominalism

      • Andrea C. Bottani
      Pages 159-170
    8. Counting the Colours

      • Benjamin Schnieder
      Pages 171-183
    9. Predication

      • Paolo Leonardi
      Pages 185-197
    10. Temporal Parts and Spatial Location

      • Damiano Costa
      Pages 199-206
    11. Internal, Formal and Thin Relations

      • François Clementz
      Pages 207-223
    12. All Relations Are Internal: The New Version

      • Ingvar Johansson
      Pages 225-240
    13. Because

      • Achille C. Varzi
      Pages 253-256

About this book

This book addresses five main topics of metaphysics in its first section: formal objects and truth-makers; tropes; properties and predicates; varieties of relations; and the notion of explanation in metaphysics. The second part of this volume focuses on the history of philosophy with an emphasis on Austrian philosophy: the ideas of Bolzano, Wittgenstein, Locke and Bergson, amongst others, are explored in the papers presented here.

This is the first volume in a two-volume set that originates from papers presented to Professor Kevin Mulligan, covering the subjects that he contributed to during his career including ontology, mind and value, history and philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. This volume contains thirty two chapters, written by researchers from across Europe, North America and North Africa.

These papers cover topics in metaphysics ranging from Lehrer and Tolliver’s discussion of truth and tropes, to Johansson’s defence of the distinction between thick and thin relations and Persson and Sahlin’s presentation of the difficulties inherent in applying the concept of explanation in metaphysics.

Papers on the history of philosophy include a look at Bolzano’s formative years and his conception of mathematics. De Libera examines Brentano’s adverbial theory of judgment and Fisette traces the history of the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th century. Marion contests the trendy pragmatist accounts that lump Wittgenstein and Heidegger together and there are analyses of Locke and Bergson’s work, amongst the many papers presented here.

This volume contains three chapters in French and one in Spanish. The second volume of this set looks at ethics, values and emotions, epistemology, perception and consciousness, as well as philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

Editors and Affiliations

  • L2C2, CNRS UMR5304 Institute for Cognitive Sciences, Bron Cedex, France

    Anne Reboul

About the editor

Anne Reboul is senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in a laboratory in Lyons. She has a Ph.D. in Language Sciences as well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy. She has been mainly interested in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind and more specifically in pragmatics, semantics and their interface. She has published a number of papers and books in both French and English.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mind, Values, and Metaphysics

  • Book Subtitle: Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan - Volume 1

  • Editors: Anne Reboul

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04199-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04198-8Published: 27 August 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35385-2Published: 10 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04199-5Published: 13 August 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 536

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Semantics, Ethics

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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