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'The Fragmentation of Being' offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions in ontology. There are many kinds of beings but are there also many kinds of being? The world contains a variety of objects, each of which, let us provisionally assume, exists, but do some objects exist in different ways? Do some objects enjoy more being or existence than other objects? Are there different ways in which one object might enjoy more being than another? Most contemporary metaphysicians would answer "no" to each of these questions. So widespread is this consensus that the questions this book addressed are rarely even raised let alone explicitly answered. But Kris McDaniel carefully examines a wide range of reasons for answering each of these questions with a "yes". In doing so, he connects these questions with many important metaphysical topics, including substance and accident, time and persistence, the nature of ontological categories, possibility and necessity, presence and absence, persons and value, ground and consequence, and essence and accident. In addition to discussing contemporary problems and theories, McDaniel also discusses the ontological views of many important figures in the history of philosophy, including Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Husserl, Kant, Leibniz, Meinong, and many more.

Ontology. --- Metaphysics

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L'ontologie est la partie de la métaphysique qui traite de l'être en général, et non d'un être en particulier, et qui prend pour domaine d'enquête les objets réels mais aussi les objets possibles, en s'appliquant à l'étude de leurs propriétés et de leurs structures ultimes. Ce volume fournit les textes fondamentaux relatifs aux principales notions de l'ontologie contemporaine. Y sont abordés les problèmes de la composition matérielle des objets, de la causalité, de la nature du temps et des relations en général, ainsi que les questions de méthode concernant les liens de cette discipline avec la logique et les sciences et son recours aux intuitions et aux catégories conceptuelles.

Ontologie --- --Ontologie --- --Ontologie. --- Causalité. --- Relation (philosophie) --- Ontologie. --- Ontology. --- Causation. --- Relation (Philosophie). --- Relation (Philosophy) --- --Ontology --- Causation --- Ontology

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Ontology --- Metaphysics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Anthropology

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Metaphysics. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind

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With the interest in practice theory and praxeology on the rise, praxeology can be considered an emerging new methodological as well as theoretical paradigm which successfully overcomes epistemological dichotomies of conventional approaches.The articles in this volume serve as starting points for rendering contemporary practice theory approaches useful for the analysis of political events and processes, without reducing the political aspect a priori to the formal policy sphere. In this context, Praxeological Political Analysis demonstrates that praxeological research is now increasingly addressing issues which are considered virulent in, for instance, the consumer, sustainability or political spheres. Following on from this key focus on political analysis, this title also seeks to expand the current status of primarily political science adaptions of practice theory approaches to the analysis of predominantly narrowly defined political practices.Written with an explicit focus on diverse political aspects and dimensions in the performative enactment of social practices, this title will appeal to post-graduate students and scholars interested in sociology of politics, social and public policy, development in social theory and political research methods. (Provided by publisher)

Praxeology --- Praxeology --- Ontology --- Political aspects --- Social aspects