Ontological Investigations: An Inquiry Into the Categories of Nature, Man and Soceity

by Ingvar Johansson

This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and theory of categories inspired by Aristotle, but revised in such a way as to be compatible with modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reality is addressed, starting out from the view that universals exist but only in the spatiotemporal world (immanent realism). In attempting to bring Aristotle's ontology up-to-date, the author relies very...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110329697
• ISBN13: 9783110329698
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"