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Main description: Although there is a huge literature on Nietzsche's philosophy, this is the first study in English that focuses on his ontology. Before proceeding to that ontology, Addis argues that, contrary to many commentators, Nietzsche defends both the possibility and the desirability of objectivity in the search for knowledge, including knowledge of the basic features of reality, that is, of ontology. In separate chapters, Addis then sets out, analyzes, and evaluates the five essential components of Nietzsche's ontology: constant change, substances and things, minds, causation, and will to power. In each case, Addis contributes an original understanding of the feature under discussion, with more detail than exists in other treatments, and defended with quotes from relevant texts of Nietzsche.

Brings Schelling's ontology into conversation with contemporary analytic metaphysics of powersContributes to the recent revival of interest in Schelling as a historical figures as well as relevant to contemporary concernsOffers a unique account of Schelling's philosophy and conception of freedomLinks Schelling's work to current debates in the analytic traditionCharlotte Alderwick presents Schelling's ontology as fundamentally power-based. She demonstrates that this ontology enables his unique conception of human freedom outlined in the 'Freedom' essay.This distinctive reading demonstrates that Schelling's power-based ontology can usefully problematise and supplement contemporary work on power-based ontologies. First, where current work focuses on powers in relation to specific areas of metaphysics, Schelling provides a holistic picture, encompassing these areas into a single ontological story. Secondly, engagement with Schelling's work points to problems (and to possible solutions) that will arise for any power-based metaphysics, but have not been examined in the literature

Heidegger's Moral Ontology' offers the first comprehensive account of the ethical issues that underwrite Heidegger's efforts to develop a novel account of human existence. Drawing from a wide array of source materials from the period leading up to the publication of Being and Time (1919-1927), and in conversation with ancient, modern, and contemporary contributions to moral philosophy, James D. Reid brings Heidegger's early philosophy into fruitful dialogue with the history of ethics, and sheds fresh light on such familiar topics as Heidegger's critique of Husserl, his engagement with Aristotle, his account of mortality, the role played by Kant in the genesis of Being and Time, and Heidegger's early reflections on philosophical language and concepts. This lively book will appeal to all who are interested in Heidegger's early phenomenology and in his thought more generally, as well as to those interested in the nature, scope, and foundations of ethical life

"David Weissman argues against atomistic ontologies, affirming instead that all of reality is social. Every particular is a system created by the reciprocal causal relations of its parts, he explains. Weissman formulates an original metaphysics of nature that remains true to what is known through the empirical sciences, and he applies his hypothesis to a range of topics in psychology, morals, sociology, and politics." "The author contends that systems are sometimes mutually independent, but many systems - human ones especially - are joined in higher order systems, such as families, friendships, businesses, and states, that are overlapping or nested. Weissman tests this schematic claim with empirical examples in chapters on persons, sociality, and value. He also considers how the scheme applies to particular issues related to deliberation, free speech, conflict, and ecology."--Jacket

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Ethics without Ontology -- LECTURE 1 Ethics without Metaphysics -- LECTURE 2 A Defense of Conceptual Relativity -- LECTURE 3 Objectivity without Objects -- LECTURE 4 "Ontology": An Obituary -- PART II Enlightenment and Pragmatism -- LECTURE 1 The Three Enlightenments -- LECTURE 2 Skepticism about Enlightenment -- Notes -- Index

This book is a collection of articles authored by renowed Polish ontologists living and working in the early part of the 21st century. Harking back to the well-known Polish Lvov-Warsaw School, founded by Kazimierz Twardowski, we try to make our ontological considerations as systematically rigorous and clear as possible - i.e. to the greatest extent feasible, but also no more than the subject under consideration itself allows for. Hence, the papers presented here do not seek to steer clear of methods of inquiry typical of either the formal or the natural sciences: on the contrary, they use such methods wherever possible. At the same time, despite their adherence to rigorous methods, the Polish ontologists included here do not avoid traditional ontological issues, being inspired as they most certainly are by the great masters of Western philosophy - from Plato and Aristotle, through St. Thomas and Leibniz, to Husserl, to name arguably just the most important

Preliminary Material /H. Ikaheimo and A. Laitinen -- 1. Recognition And Social Ontology: An Introduction /Heikki Ikäheimo and Arto Laitinen -- 2. The Structure Of Desire And Recognition: Self-Consciousness And Self-Constitution /Robert B. Brandom -- 3. On Hegel's Claim That Self-Consciousnessis "Desire Itself" ("Begierde Überhaupt") /Robert B. Pippin -- 4. Intuition, Understanding, And The Human Form Of Life /Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer -- 5. Mutual Recognition: Hegel And Beyond /Ludwig Siep -- 6. Holism And Normative Essentialism In Hegel's Social Ontology /Heikki Ikäheimo -- 7. The Relevance Of Hegel's "Absolute Spirit" To Social Normativity /Paul Redding -- 8. Recognition As The Social Grammar Of Species Being In Marx /Michael Quante -- 9. Mutual Recognition And Some Related Phenomena /Margaret Gilbert -- 10. Social Space And The Ontology Of Recognition /Italo Testa -- 11. Recognition, Acknowledgement, And Acceptance /Arto Laitinen -- 12. Institutional Power, Collective Acceptance, And Recognition /Titus Stahl -- 13. The Problem Of Collective Identity:The Instituting We And The Instituted We /Vincent Descombes -- Index /H. Ikaheimo and A. Laitinen.

Introduction: Sense, development, and the phenomenology of nature -- Merleau-Ponty and the ontology of sense -- Sense and the problem of nature in the structure of behaviour -- Sense and the ontology of temporality in phenomenology of perception -- Phenomenology of nature and life as phenomenal field: embryology and a methodology for sense -- The negative-in-being (I): immunology and the place of sense -- The negative-in-being (II): genetics and the temporality of sense -- Developmental ontology: deep temporality and sense in nature

This book explores the complex domain of social reality, asking what this reality is, how it is composed and what its dynamics are in both theoretical and practical terms. Through the examination of some of the most important contemporary theories of social ontology, the book discusses the fundamentals of the discipline and lays the foundations for its development in the political sphere. By analyzing the notion of State and the redesign of ontology, the author argues in favor of a realist conception of the State and shows the reasons why this promotes a better understanding of the dynamics of power and the actualization of a greater justice between generations. This book captures the relationship between different generations within the same political context, and presents it as a necessary condition for the re-definition of the concepts of State and meta-State