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This book is a collection of essays in systematic ontology. The parts of its title - "Things" and "Ways They Are" - are indicative of two broadly and intensively discussed issues in current ontology, namely, what categories of entities there are and in what ways they are relevant for our discourses. The three sections of the volume correspond to focuses of ontological research: "Before Ontology" is dedicated to conceptual, methodological, and meta-ontological issues; "Ontology at Work" raises general topics of categorial ontology, and the final section "Ontology in Application" discusses...

The book presents papers from leading proponents of realist, relativist, and constructivist positions in epistemology and the philosophy of language and ethics.

The aim of this volume is to investigate the topic of Substance and Attribute. The way leading to this aim is a dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy. Our project is motivated by the observation that the historical roots of Islamic and of Western Philosophy are very similar. Thus some of the articles in this volume are dedicated to the history of philosophy, in Islamic thinking as well as in Western traditions. But the dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy is not only an historical issue, it also has systematic relevance for actual philosophical questions. The topic...

The leading idea of the book is to focus on the common roots of Islamic and Western traditions and to increase awareness of the chances of systematic philosophical dispute, with the aim to promote a substantial dialogue on an academic level. Most of the collected papers in this edition are results of contributions to a workshop, organized by the editors of the volume, as an integrated part of a visit to the Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute (IKERI) of Qom by a delegation of philosophers from the University of Innsbruck in May 2008. The organizational frame of the workshop and...

What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? - This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society in Kirchberg. Worldwide leading philosophers accepted the invitation to come to the conference, whose results are published in this volume, edited by Christian Kanzian Edmund Runggaldier. The sections are dedicated to the philosophy of Wittgenstein, Logics and Philosophy of Language, Decision- and Action Theory, Ethical Aspects of the Intercultural Dialogue,...

This book is about how things are. It starts from the principles of a descriptive (i.e. everyday ontological ) ontology of things to develop a theory about the title question that is based on the notion of mode . Modes are concrete, individual determinants of things. The power of the theory is then tested to determine its usefulness for developing an ontology of things.

Seit uber 30 Jahren ist das Internationale Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel (Osterreich), veranstaltet von der Osterreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft (OLWG), eine fixe Groe in der Welt der Philosophie. Mit dieser Festschrift zum 30. Wittgenstein Symposium (2007) werden Einblicke in die Geschichte der Tagungen gegeben. Das Buch ist ein bunter Strau von Beitragen, von akademisch-philosophischen ebenso wie von historisch-anekdotenhaften. Es gibt Lob, aber es gibt auch kritische Stimmen zur Geschichte der Gesellschaft und der Symposien. Die Leser finden hier...