Categories of Being: Essays on Metaphysics and Logic

504 Pages·2012·2.35 MB·English

by  Leila Haaparanta

Categories of Being
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Categories of Being
Essays on Metaphysics and Logic
Edited by Leila Haaparanta
and
Heikki J. Koskinen

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Categories of being : essays on metaphysics and logic / edited by
Leila Haaparanta and Heikki J. Koskinen.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-19-989057-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Categories (Philosophy)—History. I. Haaparanta, Leila, 1954– II. Koskinen, Heikki J., 1966–
BD331.C387 2012
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Contributors ix
Introduction 3
Leila Haaparanta and Heikki J. Koskinen
Chapter 1. Being, Categories, and Universal Reference in Aristotle 17
Michael J. Loux
Chapter 2. Dividing Being: Before and Aft er Avicenna 36
Taneli Kukkonen
Chapter 3. Th e Metaphysics of the Categories in John Duns Scotus 62
Simo Knuuttila
Chapter 4. Ockham on Being 78
Calvin G.Normore
Chapter 5. Leibniz (and Ockham) on the Language of Th ought, or How the True
Metaphysics Is Derived from the True Logic 99
Henrik Lagerlund
Chapter 6. Th e Critique of Pure Reason as Metaphysics 119
Olli Koistinen
Chapter 7. Th e Relation of Logic to Ontology in Hegel 145
Paul Redding
Chapter 8. Bolzano’s Universe: Metaphysics, Logic, and Truth 167
Arianna Betti
Chapter 9. Charles S. Peirce: Pragmatism, Logic, and Metaphysics 191
Torjus Midtgarden
Chapter 10. Georg Cantor’s Paradise, Metaphysics, and Husserlian Logic 217
Claire Ortiz Hill
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Chapter 11. To Be and/or Not to Be: Th e Objects of Meinong and Husserl 241
Peter Simons
Chapter 12. Logic and Metaphysics in Early Analytic Philosophy 257
Michael Beaney
Chapter 13. Logic, Modality, and Metaphysics in Early Analytic
Philosophy: C. I. Lewis Against Russell 293
Sanford Shieh
Chapter 14. On “Being” and Being: Frege Between Carnap and Heidegger 319
Leila Haaparanta
Chapter 15. Quine, Predication, and the Categories of Being 338
Heikki J. Koskinen
Chapter 16. Wilfrid Sellars’s Anti-Descriptivism 358
Kevin Scharp
Chapter 17. Strawson’s Descriptive Metaphysics 391
Hans-Johann Glock
Chapter 18. D. M. Armstrong and the Recovery of Ontology 420
Keith Campbell
Chapter 19. On Tropic Realism 439
Ilkka Niiniluoto
Chapter 20. Transcendental Philosophy as Ontology 453
Sami Pihlström
Index 479
Acknowledgments
W e wish to thank the contributors, with whom it has been a pleasure to cooperate.
Our special thanks are due to Risto Koskensilta, who kindly assisted us at the fi nal
stage of the editorial process. We are grateful to Peter Ohlin, senior editor at Oxford
University Press, and the anonymous readers for assistance and encouragement, and
to Lucy Randall and Sue Warga, of Oxford University Press, for generous help in pre-
paring the manuscript for publication. Th e fi nancial support given by the Academy of
Finland is gratefully acknowledged. We have done the editorial work at the University
of Tampere, at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Th e Editors
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Contributors
Michael Beaney is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, United Kingdom.
He works on the history of analytic philosophy and on conceptions of analysis in the
history of philosophy. He is the author of F rege: Making Sense (Duckworth, 1996),
and editor of Th e Frege Reader (Blackwell, 1997), G ottlob Frege: Critical Assessments
of Leading Philosophers (with Erich Reck; 4 vols., Routledge, 2005), Th e Analytic Turn
(Routledge, 2007), and Th e Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Arianna Betti studies the relationship between language and the world, including the
history of truth, meaning and reference in 19th- and 20th-century scientifi c philos-
ophy in Central Europe. She is currently assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam, where she is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant ‘Tarski’s
Revolution’ (h ttp://axiom.vu.nl/) . She is the author of A gainst Facts (under review),
co-editor of two special issues of Synthese ( Th e Classical Model of Science I & II) and of
around forty other publications including ‘On Tarski’s Foundations of the Geometry of
Solids’ (with I. Loeb, forthcoming on Th e Bulletin of Symbolic Logic ) and an entry on
Kazimierz Twardowski in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
Keith Campbell is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He
is the author of A bstract Particulars – a defence of the trope account of properties and of
objects and of A Stoic Philosophy of Life – a defence of the life of rational virtue as the best
path to human fl ourishing and of two textbooks Body and Mind, on the mind-body prob-
lem , and Metaphysics, An Introduction , which expounds a philosophy of matter, and an
approach to the ontology of categories. He is currently working to make the thought of
Donald Williams, the originator of trope theory in the 20th century, more widely known.
Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zurich (Switzer-
land), and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading (UK). He has held posi-
tions at Oxford and Reading, as well as visiting professorships and research fellowships
at Queen’s University (Ontario), Bielefeld University (Germany), Rhodes University
(South Africa) and the Hanse-Wissenschaft skolleg (Germany). He is the author of
A Wittgenstein Dictionary (Blackwell 1996), Quine and Davidson on language, thought
and reality (CUP 2003), La mente de los animals (KRK 2009) and W hat is Analytic
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