Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology

ISBN-13: 9780748692897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str.

Modern and Contemporary Philo Markus (Chair in Epistemology

Opis

A new realist ontology based on the concept of fields of sense
Markus Gabriel presents us with an innovative answer to one of the central questions of philosophy: What is the meaning of 'being' - or, rather, 'existence' - and how does that concept relate to the totality of what there is?
Gabriel argues that there is no all-encompassing totality: that the world, in the traditional sense of a domain of all domains, cannot exist. Yet, he convincingly shows that this does not entail ontological nihilism. Rather, he argues that the non-existence of the world entails an infinity of domains and shows that this motivates a general realism - we can know things in themselves because our knowledge of things in themselves is itself part of these things.
This ontology hinges on Gabriel's concept of fields of sense, which shows that, fundamentally, he opposes the idea that mathematics or the natural sciences could ever replace a richer philosophical understanding of what there is and how we know about it.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface; Author’s Preface; Introduction; Part I: Negative Ontology; 1. Zoontology; 2. Existence is not a proper property; 3. What is wrong with Kant and Frege?; 4. Limits of Set-Theoretical Ontology and Contemporary Nihilism; 5. Domains of Objects and Fields of Sense; 6. Fields and the Meaning of Existence; 7. The No World View; Part II: Positive Ontology; 8. Indefinitely Many Fields of Sense; 9. How Flat Can Ontology Be?; 10. Actuality and Possibility; 11. Modalities II: Necessity, Contingency, and Logical Time; 12. Forms of Knowledge: Epistemological Pluralism, 13. Senses as Ways Things Are in Themselves; Bibliography; Index.