Contemporary Metaphysics – A Picture of the Landscape

Stanisław Jędrczak

doi:10.14394/filnau.2022.0037

Authors

Stanisław Jędrczak University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4814-2409

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14394/filnau.2022.0037

Keywords:

meta-metaphysical realism, four-category ontology, categorial fundamentality, non-Cartesian substance dualism, atomism

Abstract

E. J. Lowe and Ontology, edited by Mirosław Szatkowski, is the outcome of the international conference Jonathan Lowe and Ontology, which took place in Warsaw on 21–23 May 2019. The book consists of fifteen essays by philosophers of international renown; it concerns, among others, meta-ontology, theory of categories, persistence in time, agency, and mental causation. In addition to summarizing the book’s contribution to contemporary formal ontology, this review includes a critical discussion of selected chapters on meta-metaphysics, as well as general and special metaphysics.

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