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Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge
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Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge Hardback - 1999

by Jorge J. Gracia

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Systematically analyzes the nature of metaphysics.

By offering the first systematic analysis of the nature of the discipline, Metaphysics and Its Task answers why metaphysics always recovers from the attacks it has been subjected to throughout its history. This is done by examining its object, method, aim, and the kind of propositions of which it is composed. In addition to presenting a new conception of metaphysics and an explanation of the resilience of the discipline, the book offers a novel understanding of the nature and ontological status of categories, an analysis of the nature of reductionism and its role in philosophy, and a discussion and criticism of the main views concerning the nature of metaphysics developed in the history of philosophy. In this nonsectarian book Gracia uses sources ranging from Plato and Aquinas, to Collingwood and Strawson. Written in nontechnical language, it is accompanied by detailed bibliographical references.

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  • Title Metaphysics and Its Task: The Search for the Categorial Foundation of Knowledge
  • Author Jorge J. Gracia
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 247
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Publication date 1999-08
  • ISBN 9780791442135 / 0791442136
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.2 x 0.8 in (23.57 x 15.75 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Metaphysics
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-48000
  • Dewey Decimal Code 110

About the author

Jorge J. E. Gracia is Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo. He has published extensively, and is the author of, among others, Texts: Ontological Status, Identity, Author, Audience; A Theory of Textuality: The Logic and Epistemology; Philosophy and Its History: Issues in Philosophical Historiography; and Individuality: An Essay on the Foundations of Metaphysics, all published by SUNY Press. He has edited many books for SUNY Press, including Individuation in Scholasticism: The Later Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation, 1150-1650; Individuation and Identity in Early Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (with Kenneth F. Barber); and Philosophy and Literature in Latin America: A Critical Assessment of the Current Situation (with Mireye Camurati).

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