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Formal Ontology

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Roberto Poli

    1. Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento, Italy

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  2. Peter Simons

    1. Department of Philosophy, Leeds, UK

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Part of the book series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series (NIPS, volume 53)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Res, Ens and Aliquid

    • Roberto Poli
    Pages 1-26

  3. Conceptual Realism as a Formal Ontology

    • Nino B. Cocchiarella
    Pages 27-60

  4. The Way of Truth

    • Jerzy Perzanowski
    Pages 61-130

  5. Existence and Correspondence-to-Fact

    • Fred Sommers
    Pages 131-158

  6. A World of States of Affairs

    • David M. Armstrong
    Pages 159-171

  7. A Formal Ontology of Situations

    • Mieczyslaw Omyla
    Pages 173-187

  8. Attributives, Their First Denotative Correlates, Complex Predicates and Free Logics

    • Karel Lambert
    Pages 189-198

  9. Formal and Material Ontology

    • Liliana Albertazzi
    Pages 199-232

  10. Physics and the Phenomenal World

    • Jean Petitot, Barry Smith
    Pages 233-253

  11. Aspects of the Mereology of Artifacts

    • Peter M. Simons, Charles W. Dement
    Pages 255-276

  12. Physical Addition

    • Ingvar Johansson
    Pages 277-288

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 289-296
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About this book

Formal ontology combines two ideas, one originating with Husserl, the other with Frege: that of ontology of the formal aspects of all objects, irrespective of their particular nature, and ontology pursued by employing the tools of modern formal disciplines, notably logic and semantics. These two traditions have converged in recent years and this is the first collection to encompass them as a whole in a single volume. It assembles essays from authors around the world already widely known for their work in formal ontology, and illustrates that through the application of formal methods the ancient discipline of ontology may be put on a firm methodological basis. The essays not only illuminate the nature of ontology and its relation to other areas, in language, logic and everyday life, but also demonstrate that common issues from the analytical and phenomenological traditions may be discussed without ideological barriers.
Audience: advanced students of and specialists in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science, computer science, database engineering.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento, Italy

    Roberto Poli

  • Department of Philosophy, Leeds, UK

    Peter Simons

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Formal Ontology

  • Editors: Roberto Poli, Peter Simons

  • Series Title: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8733-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4104-8Published: 30 June 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4718-2Published: 17 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8733-4Published: 27 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4530

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 298

  • Topics: Ontology, Logic, Metaphysics, Phenomenology

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