Truth and Ontology

Truth and Ontology
Title Truth and Ontology PDF eBook
Author Trenton Merricks
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 221
Release 2007-04-19
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 019920523X

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A central question in philosophy is whether and how truth depends on the world. In isolation this question is so abstract that it is hard to address in an illuminating way. Instead, Trenton Merricks looks at how answers to this question bear on a variety of other philosophical debates. The result is a well-grounded discussion of the nature of truth that in its turn casts new light on these philosophical debates themselves.

Thisness Presentism

Thisness Presentism
Title Thisness Presentism PDF eBook
Author David Ingram
Publisher Routledge
Pages 322
Release 2018-09-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0429839200

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Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of reality that is dynamic and mutable, rather than static and immutable. The book advances a new defence of presentism by developing a novel ontology of thisness, combining insights about the nature of essence, the metaphysics of propositions, and the relationship between true propositions and the elements of reality that make them true, alongside insights about time itself. It shows how, by accepting an ontology of thisness, presentists can respond to a number of pressing challenges to presentism, including claims that presentism cannot account for true propositions about the past, and that it is inconsistent with the reality of temporal passage and the openness of the future. This is one of the only book-length defences of presentism. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on the debate about presentism in the philosophy of time, as well as those interested in the metaphysics of propositions and truth-making, more generally.

Truth and Genesis

Truth and Genesis
Title Truth and Genesis PDF eBook
Author Miguel de Beistegui
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 414
Release 2004-06-16
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780253111005

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"... an attempt to revive ontology (or metaphysics) -- indeed philosophy itself -- by means of a two-sided conception of being.... This is a remarkable idea which has produced a powerful book." -- Leonard Lawlor "... a major philosophical study: rich, brilliant... a tour de force, a seminal study that will be a starting-point for future research in this area." -- Robert Bernasconi In Truth and Genesis, Miguel de Beistegui considers the role and meaning of philosophy today. Calling for a new departure for philosophy, one that brings together philosophy's scattered identities, de Beistegui proposes a robust and unified philosophy that would find itself equally at home in artistic and scientific disciplines. To build this renewed philosophy, de Beistegui turns to Aristotle and the earliest foundations of thought. He traces philosophy's development through the medieval and modern periods before comparing and investigating the work of two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, Martin Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze. In particular, de Beistegui focuses on Deleuze's Difference and Repetition and Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy for their handling of the concept of difference. De Beistegui concludes that Deleuze and Heidegger are irreconcilable, but it is in their disagreements that he sees a way to liberate philosophy from its current crisis.

A Theory of Truthmaking

A Theory of Truthmaking
Title A Theory of Truthmaking PDF eBook
Author Jamin Asay
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 311
Release 2020-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 1108499880

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Demonstrates how truthmaking can be used to make progress all across philosophy, but without its usual theoretical baggage.

Ontology Made Easy

Ontology Made Easy
Title Ontology Made Easy PDF eBook
Author Amie Lynn Thomasson
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 361
Release 2015
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199385114

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Existence questions have been topics for heated debates in metaphysics, but this book argues that they can often be answered easily, by trivial inferences from uncontroversial premises. This 'easy' approach to ontology leads to realism about disputed entities, and to the view that metaphysical disputes about existence questions are misguided.

Truth and Truthmakers

Truth and Truthmakers
Title Truth and Truthmakers PDF eBook
Author D. M. Armstrong
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 174
Release 2004-05-27
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521547239

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This book, first published in 2004, makes a compelling case for truthmaking and its importance in philosophy.

Object-Oriented Ontology

Object-Oriented Ontology
Title Object-Oriented Ontology PDF eBook
Author Graham Harman
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 255
Release 2018-03-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 0241269172

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What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as special, radically different in kind from all other objects. But as Graham Harman, one of the theory's leading exponents, shows, Object-Oriented Ontology rejects the idea of human specialness: the world, he states, is clearly not the world as manifest to humans. At the heart of this philosophy is the idea that objects - whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human or non-human - are mutually autonomous. In this brilliant new introduction, Graham Harman lays out the history, ideas and impact of Object-Oriented Ontology, taking in everything from art and literature, politics and natural science along the way. Graham Harman is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SCI-Arc, Los Angeles. A key figure in the contemporary speculative realism movement in philosophy and for his development of the field of object-oriented ontology, he was named by Art Review magazine as one of the 100 most influential figures in international art.