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Title Existence and nature : new perspectives / Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Matteo Plebani (eds.)
Published Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag ; Piscataway, NJ : [Distributed in] North and South America by Transaction Books, ©2012

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Contents Introduction; A Naturalistic Paradox: Existence and Nature in the Philosophy of Mathematics; "To Be Is to Have Causal Powers": Existence and Nature in Analytic Metaphysics; Dividing Fiction from Reality: Existence and Nature in Christian Wolff's Metaphysics; "Nature Is the Realm of the Incomprehensible" (E. Husserl, 1920): Existence and Nature, with a Phenomenological Tale
Summary Is all that exists part of the natural world? If there are non-natural entities, what is their difference from natural things? Is the human-independent realm of nature the only paradigm for ontological respectability, as naturalism claims? Can existence be simply explained away by means of formal devices? Philosophers keep struggling with such questions. Still, the two basic notions involved, that of existence and that of nature, have not yet been fully explored. The four essays collected here address the issue from the points of view of the philosophy of mathematics, of analytic ontology, of
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Subject Philosophy of nature.
Existentialism.
existentialism.
SCIENCE -- Cosmology.
Existentialism
Philosophy of nature
Form Electronic book
Author Favaretti Camposampiero, Matteo, 1974-
Plebani, Matteo.
ISBN 9783110321807
3110321807
9783110321548
3110321548