Robert Merrihew Adams

What Is, and What Is In Itself

A Systematic Ontology

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This work is ''a systematic ontology.'' Ontology is the study of being as such, and a systematic ontology is an account of the most fundamental ways of being something or other - of what they are and of how they are related to each other. The questions it pursues are not primarily about what causes things, but about what things are or consist in - though causal questions cannot be totally avoided. The title of the work, WhatIs, and What Is in Itself, marks the most important distinction in ways of being. What is includes everything there is, but not everything there is included in what is in itself. The first five chapters of the book define… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-266878-3
EAN: 9780192668783
Produktnummer: 38108934
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: PDF

Über den Autor

Robert Merrihew Adams got an AB in philosophy at Princeton University, 1955-59, a BA in theology at Oxford University, 1959-61, and a BD at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1961-62, following which he served as pastor of a Presbyterian church in Montauk at the eastern tip of Long Island, 1962-65. He got his PhD in Philosophy at Cornell University, 1965-69. He then taught Philosophy full time at the University of Michigan, 1968-72, at UCLA 1972-93, and at Yale1999-2003. He became a non-stipendiary Senior Research Fellow and very part-time Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University 2004-09, and a part-time Professor of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill 2009-13 and at Rutgers 2013-16.