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Book SynopsisThemes from Ontology, Mind and Logic celebrates Peter Simons’s admirable career. The book contains seventeen essays with themes ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology. The contributions by Fabrice Correia, Bob Hale and Crispin Wright, Ingvar Johansson, Kathrin Koslicki, Uriah Kriegel, Wolfgang Künne, Edgar Morscher, Kevin Mulligan, Maria Elisabeth Reicher, Maria van der Schaar, Benjamin Schnieder, Johanna Seibt, Ted Sider, David Woodruff Smith, Mark Textor and Jan Woleński, tackle the problems that defined Simons’s work and insights into some of today’s most interesting and significant philosophical questions.
Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Ontology Fabrice CORREIA: Logical Grounding and First-Degree Entailments Ingvar JOHANSSON: Collections as One-and-Many—On the Nature of Numbers Kathrin KOSLICKI: In Defense of Substance Uriah KRIEGEL: How to Speak of Existence: A Brentanian Approach to (Linguistic and Mental) Ontological Commitment Maria Elisabeth REICHER: Computer-generated Music, Authorship, and Work Identity Benjamin SCHNIEDER: The Asymmetry of ‘Because’ Johanna SEIBT: Non-Transitive Parthood, Leveled Mereology, and the Representation of Emergent Parts of Processes Ted SIDER: Nothing Over and Above David WOODRUFF SMITH: On Basic Modes of Being: Metametaphysical Refl ections in Light of Whitehead, Husserl, Ingarden, Hintikka Part II: Mind Kevin MULLIGAN,: Annehmen, Phantasieren und Entertaining. Husserl und Meinong Mark TEXTOR: Meaning, Entertaining, and Phantasy Judgement Maria VAN DER SCHAAR: Th e Th ings We Call True Part III: Logic Bob HALE & Crispin WRIGHT: Bolzano’s Defi nition of Analytic Propositions Wolfgang KÜNNE: On Having a Property. Corrigenda in Bolzano’s Wissenschaftslehre Edgar MORSCHER: Th e Logic of Truth Jan WOLEŃSKI: An Analysis of Logical Determinism
