Categorie e realtà: Esercizi di metaontologia

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Paolo Valore
University of Milan
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0036-6486
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/fsu.189

Keywords:

Ontology, Metaontology, Metaphysics, Kant, Herbart, Quine, Putnam

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The central thesis of this book is that the search for a "logical form" suitable for the needs of ontology is an operation of free construction rather than discovery. The idea is that we do not simply reveal the deep structure of our language but shape the expressive form that best renders our prior metaphysical intuitions. Starting from this premise, the volume proposes four different ways of thematizing the possibility and methods of ontology. These four essays share the same metaontological strategy, despite the multiplicity of references to authors and philosophical styles. The strategy stresses the contribution of our categorial frameworks and identifies the methods for constructing an ontology in the creation of a new ideal formulation of language for the purposes of philosophical investigation. Thus, it is discovered that ontology, instead of being eliminated through logical analysis of language, finds in the logical analysis of language its very possibility.

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Paolo Valore, University of Milan

Paolo Valore teaches Epistemology and Mind and Reality at the University of Milan. He has taught Theoretical Philosophy and Theory of Truth at the School of Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan and Philosophy of Social Objects at Bocconi University. Visiting academic at various universities and research centers abroad, including NYU (New York), Rutgers (New Brunswick), Higher School of Economics (Moscow), Complutense (Madrid), and Columbia University (New York). He has been a Fulbright Fellow twice, funded by the U.S. Department of State, and he was the head of the interuniversity project "OntoForMat," funded by the "Firb-Futuro in Ricerca" program. Among his books are: Fundamentals of Ontological Commitment (2016), Quine (2014), La sentenza di Isacco. Come dire la verità senza essere realisti (2012), L'inventario del mondo. Guida allo studio dell'ontologia (2008), Rappresentazione, riferimento e realtà (2001), and Trascendentale e idea di ragione (1999).

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October 10, 2024
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