Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9783110319316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 315 str.

Vesselin Petrov

Opis

In the last decades ontology has been successfully developed in many directions and has fostered various approaches for depicting the contemporary ontological landscapes. An important task is to outline recent thought on the conceptual interfaces between science and philosophy. The present volume opens up a view onto the plurality of different ontological schemes. The papers collected here discuss the interfaces between ontology and empirical research that are created by the notions of a whole, a thought, a number, a quality, an ability, a kind, notions of causation, dynamicity, and social objects, the application of relevant logical tools for the reconsideration of ontological paradigms, as well as the investigation of the consequences in cognitive sciences on the development of ontology.

O autorze

Vesselin Petrov is Associate Professor in the Department of Ontological and Epistemological Investigations of the Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Sofia, Bulgaria). The main fields of his research interest are: ontology, applied ontology, process philosophy.