Contemporary Metaphysics – A Picture of the Landscape
Contemporary Metaphysics – A Picture of the Landscape
Author(s): Stanisław JędrczakSubject(s): Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: meta-metaphysical realism; four-category ontology; categorial fundamentality; non-Cartesian substance dualism; atomism
Summary/Abstract: E. J. Lowe and Ontology, edited by Mirosław Szatkowski, is the outcome of the international conference Jonathan Lowe and Ontology, which took place in Warsaw on 21–23 May 2019. The book consists of fifteen essays by philosophers of international renown; it concerns, among others, meta-ontology, theory of categories, persistence in time, agency, and mental causation. In addition to summarizing the book’s contribution to contemporary formal ontology, this review includes a critical discussion of selected chapters on meta-metaphysics, as well as general and special metaphysics.
Journal: Filozofia Nauki
- Issue Year: 30/2022
- Issue No: 4 (120)
- Page Range: 129-145
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English