Contemporary Metaphysics – A Picture of the Landscape

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, theo...

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Published inFilozofia nauki (Uniwersytet Warszawski) Vol. 30; no. 4 (120); pp. 129 - 145
Main Author Jędrczak, Stanisław
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Warsaw - Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Insitute of Philosophy 31.12.2022
Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Subjects
Philosophy
Social Philosophy
Special Branches of Philosophy
fourcategory ontology
metametaphysical realism
categorial fundamentality
nonCartesian substance dualism
atomism
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1230-6894
DOI:10.14394/edufil.2022.0037