Mereologies, Ontologies, and Facets (eBook)

The Categorial Structure of Reality

Paul M. W. Hackett (Herausgeber)

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2018
282 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2498-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Realities are structured categorially, and comprehension of our internal and external conditions do not appear to be global or unitary. Rather, both human and non human animals function within their worlds and understand these by categorizing their experiences. Drawing upon many areas of life, the authors consider the ontological, mereological and multi-faceted structure of experience to explore how an understanding of categories can further knowledge.

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The assignment events, objects, state of beings, etc., to an experiential category is a fundamental activity carried out by human (and by other animals). So rudimentary are the processes involved in categorizing that it is indeed impossible to imagine conscious awareness to exist without the presence of categories. A considerable body of writing exists on categories dating from the times of Classical philosophy. Plato developed a categorical ontology and Aristotle produced one of the earliest examples of a complex understanding of basic ontologies. A number of other categorially structured ontologies have been proposed including those by Lowe, Westerhoff, Chisholm, etc. The book is an edited collection of up to the moment essays that address critical aspects on the understanding of categories and categorial systems. The perspectives included in the book are drawn from philosophy, psychology, theology, divinity, comparative cognition and facet theory. The authors are all renowned experts in the area of their writing. Topics addressed include both contemporary advances in the understanding of perennial debates and latest thinking upon how categories are employed to structure our experiences of the world we live in.The book is distinct as being written by philosophers and psychologists. The book is a collection of writings from selected academics at the fore of debates and understandings of categories in contemporary thought. The text provides a single source for contemporary scholarship in categories. No single text that brings together expositions of categorial experiences for students and academics within the above listed disciplines.

Autor

Paul M.W. Hackett is professor in the School of Communication at Emerson College.

Inhalt

Introduction: Theoretical and Applied Categories in Philosophy and Psychology by Paul M.W. HackettChapter 1: Categorization by the Animal Mind by Alison L. Greggor and Paul M.W. HackettChapter 2: Necessary Categories of Conscious Experience by Gal YehezkelChapter 3: On Limning the True and Ultimate Structure of Reality by Claire Ortiz HillChapter 4: A Category Semantics by Paul SymingtonChapter 5: Giving Descartes His Due by Jonathan C.W. EdwardsChapter 6: Categorical Analysis in Pragmatism: Specialization in Science and the Role of Philosophy by Torgus MidtgardenChapter 7: Declarative Mapping Sentence Mereologies: Categories From Aristotle to Lowe by Paul M.W. HackettChapter 8: Facet Methodology and Analysis: Mining the Unconquered Lands of Behavioral Sciences Research by Aharon TzinerChapter 9: Divine Action, Ontological Dependence, and Truthmaking by Walter J. Schultz

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2018
• Co-Autor: Jonathan C.W. Edwards, Alison L. Greggor, Paul M. W. Hackett, Claire Ortiz Hill, Torgus Midtgarden, Walter J. Schultz, Jonathan Symington, Aharon Tziner, Gal Yehezkel
• Zusatzinfo: 26 Illustrations including: - 12 Charts; - 14 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: American Philosophy • Analytic philosophy • animal cognition • categories • Facet Theory • Logic • Metaphysics • Ontology • Philosophy of Language • Philosophy of mind • philosophy of science • Psychology • quine • set theory • twientieth-century philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2498-2 / 1498524982
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2498-8 / 9781498524988