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Title Studies in the ontology of Reinhardt Grossmann / Javier Cumpa (ed.)
Published Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Series Eide : foundations of ontology ; v. 1
Eide ; v. 1.
Contents Acknowledgements; Foreword By ERWIN TEGTMEIER; Introduction By JAVIER CUMPA; Abbreviations of Grossmann's Works; GROSSMANN STUDIES ; 1. Grossmann on Relations and Intentionality By LAIRD ADDIS; 2. It is about Time By EDWIN B. ALLAIRE; 3. Reinhardt Grossmann's Ontology By DAVID M. ARMSTRONG; 4. One- and Two- Level Acts: Bergmann and Grossmann on Realism By GUIDO BONINO; 5. Facts By PANAYOT BUTCHVAROV; 6. What is a Universal? Main Problems of Property Theory By JAVIER CUMPA; 7. Dualism and the Mind-Body Trilemma By VOLKER GADENNE
8. Grossmann and the Ontological Status of Categories By PAUL SYMINGTON & JORGE J.E. GRACIA9. The Intersection of the Mind and the World: Reinhardt Grossmann's Ontology of Knowledge By GREG JESSON; 10. Grossmann on Property-Instances and Existence: Suárez's Way Out By JAMES P. MORELAND; 11. Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond By PETER SIMONS; 12. Three Ontologies of the Iowa School: Categories and Composition By ERWIN TEGTMEIER; 13. Some Reflections on Grossmann on the Entity Existence By FRED WILSON; APPENDIXES ; I. Materialism and the New Folk Philosophy By REINHARDT GROSSMANN
II. A List of the Published Works of R. GrossmannIII. A Bibliography on R. Grossmann's Philosophy; Bibliography
Summary Reinhardt Grossmann is one of the most sophisticated, knowledgeable and original contemporary metaphysicians. Although he was a student of Bergmann, he influenced the development of Bergmann's metaphysics considerably. No philosopher other than Grossmann defends perception to that degree against the persistent skeptical arguments. He characterizes his epistemological positions as radical empiricism and radical realism. By realism Grossmann mainly means the view that the material things we perceive exist. It is thus also an ontological position and closely related to his empiricism. Grossmann's
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1931-
SUBJECT Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1931- fast
Subject Ontology.
ontology (metaphysics)
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Ontology
Form Electronic book
Author Cumpa, Javier
ISBN 9783110322460
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