Overview
- 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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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.
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Keywords
- Bolzano's Lehrjahre
- Fundamental ontology and ontology of epistemic processes
- Internal, Formal and Thin Relations
- Logic of Wittgenstein and Pauler
- Methodology of language based metaphysics
- Mind-Body Problem in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
- Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna
- Problems in Resemblance Nominalism
- Resemblance nominalism
- Science and Metaphysics
- Temporal Parts and Spatial Location
- Truth and Tropes
- Truth-makers and convention
Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Metaphysics
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
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