| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; v. 177. Gilson studies |
|
Value inquiry book series ; v. 177.
|
|
Value inquiry book series. Gilson studies.
|
| Contents |
The bounds of metaphysics / Thomas D. Sullivan and Russell Pannier -- Being as being, the transcendentals, the divine, and metaphysics : response to Sullivan and Pannier / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- What is metaphysics and what are its tasks? : an attempt to answer this question with critical reflections on Gracia's book / Josef Seifert -- Being as being and the tasks of metaphysics : response to Seifert / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- An Aristotelian critique of Gracia's metaphysics / Jonathan J. Sanford -- Metaphysics and meta-metaphysics : response to Sanford / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- Neo-Thomism and Gracia's metaphysics / Robert A. Delfino -- Thomas, Thomists, and the nature of metaphysics : response to Delfino / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- Gracia and his task / Peter A. Redpath -- The nature of philosophy : response to Redpath / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- Spirits and "things" : Ritschl's critique of metaphysics in light of Gracia's definition of metaphysics / John D. Kronen -- Is Hume a metaphysician? : Aristotle vs. Gracia / Daniel D. Novotny -- Making sense of the history of metaphysics : response to Kronen and Novotny / Jorge J.E. Gracia -- Gracia on the ontological status of categories / Russell Pannier and Thomas D. Sullivan -- Categorical neutralism : response to Pannier, Sullivan, Seifert, and Ingala / Jorge J.E. Gracia |
| Summary |
This book provides a series of challenges to Jorge J.E. Gracia's views on metaphysics and categories made by realist philosophers in the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. Inclusion of Gracia's responses to his critics makes this book a useful companion to Gracia's Metaphysics and its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge ."A valuable contribution to current metaphysics. The studies of Gracia's important book Metaphysics and its Task are insightful, and his replies to them are meticulous. One of the many merits of the book is the respect evident throughout for the es |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gracia, Jorge J. E. Metaphysics and its task
|
|
Metaphysics.
|
|
First philosophy.
|
|
metaphysics.
|
|
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
|
|
First philosophy
|
|
Metaphysics
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Delfino, Robert A
|
|
Gracia, Jorge J. E
|
| ISBN |
9781429456524 |
|
1429456523 |
|
9789042020306 |
|
904202030X |
|
