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- Presents a formal approach to the metaphysics of perspective
- Offers a novel analysis of metaphysical grounding
- Includes a historical survey of relativism in the philosophy of science
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 392)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book offers a metaphysical development of the notion of perspective. By explaining the functional nature of point of view, and by providing a concrete definition of point of view as a window through which to see the world, it offers a scientific realist theory that explains that points of view are real structures that ground properties and objects as well as perspectives. The notion of point of view has been of key importance in the history of philosophy, and different philosophical schools have used this notion to conduct analyses from the external reality to the inner phenomenal status, or even to construct an entire philosophical system. However, there has been a lack of systematic analysis of what a point of view is and what its structure is; this book fills the gap in the literature and makes the transition between semantics and epistemology, and the philosophy of science.
Keywords
- Feasibility Determinables
- philosophy points of view
- Grounding Qualitative Dimensions
- Historical Survey Points of View
- Physical World Determinable Structure
- Structure Points of View
- Historical Survey POV
- Physical World Determinable Structure
- philosophy pov
- Epistemology point of view
- Ontology Point of View
- metaphysics point of view
- Epistemology POV
- Ontology POV
- metaphysics POV
- Hautamak point of view
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
About the author
Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of La Laguna (Spain) in 2009. His books include Los problemas de las teorías representacionales de la conciencia (Tenerife: Universidad de La Laguna, 2010) and Implicaciones de la teoría de los actos de habla (Madrid: EAE, 2011), and he has coedited (with V. Raga) La filosofía de Richard Rorty (Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2010). He has also published more than 50 articles in several collected books and international journals. In 2012, Colomina received the Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Society of Logic. His research areas of interest focus on Philosophy of Science, Logic, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and the boundaries between Semantics and Pragmatics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Formal Approach to the Metaphysics of Perspectives
Book Subtitle: Points of View as Access
Authors: Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73655-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73654-9Published: 06 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89255-9Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73655-6Published: 29 January 2018
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 156
Topics: Philosophy of Science, Semantics, Epistemology