Mind, Values, and Metaphysics Philosophical Essays in Honor of Kevin Mulligan - Volume 1 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Reboul, Anne (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Semantics.; Philosophy, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Dedication: K.M.: Tollendo Tollens; A. Garcia
• Introduction; A. Reboul
• Part 1. Metaphysics
• Formal objects and the argument from knowledge; J. Leech
• The naming of facts and the methodology of language-based metaphysics; A. Betti
• The truth on predicates and connectives; J. Stern
• Truth-makers and convention T; J. Wolenski
• From grounding to truth-making: some thoughts; F. Correia
• Fundamental ontology and ontology of epistemic processes; P. Livet
• Truth and Tropes; K. Lehrer & J. Tolliver
• The facts of tropes; H. Hochberg
• The transcendental metaphysics of G.F. Stout: A Defence and Elaboration of Trope Theory; F. Mac Bride
• Two problems for resemblance nominalism; A. Bottani.-Counting the colours; B. Schnieder
• Predication; P. Leonardi.-Temporal parts and spatial location; D. Costa
• Internal, formal and thin relations; F. Clementz
• All relations are internal — the New Version; I. Johansson
• Connectives, prenectives and dishonoured cheques of metaphysical explanations; P. Blum
• Because; A. Varzi
• Why metaphysicians do not explain; I. Brinck, G. Hermerén, J. Persson & N-E. Sahlin
• Science and metaphysics: the case of quantum physics; M. Esfeld
• Part 2. History of philosophy
• Bolzano’s Lehrjahre; J. Sebestik
• Bolzano versus Kant: Mathematics as Scientia Universalis; P. Cantù
• Le direct et l’oblique: sur quelques aspects antiques et médiévaux de la théorie brentanienne des relatifs; A. de Libera
• Austrian philosophy and its institutions: Remarks on the Philosophical Society of the University of Vienna (1888-1938); D. Fisette
• La noción de valor en la filosofía de Meinong; I. Vendrell Ferran
• Austrian and Hungarian philosophy: On the logic of Wittgenstein and Pauler; B. Smith
• Winnowing Wittgenstein: what’s worth salvaging from the wreck of the Tractatus; P. Simons
• Wittgenstein, ses prédécesseurs et ses contemporains; M. Ouelbani
• Wittgenstein on Heidegger and cosmic emotions; M. Marion
• Le dogme de la vérité selon Parménide: le voir peut être factif sans être vérace, et “dicible” n’est pas véridictionnel ; J-M. Monnoyer
• The mind-body problem in Husserl and Merleau-Ponty; R. Lanfredini
• Locke and the problem of weakness of the will; R. Glauser
• Bergson, truth-making, and the retrograde movement of the true; D. Schulthess.