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Categories - Historical and Systematic Essays (Paperback)
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Categories - Historical and Systematic Essays (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
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This volume addresses the subject of categories: What are they? How
are they used in speaking and thinking? What role do they play in
our moral deliberations? Why are there different sorts of
categories? And are categories independent of our thinking and
speaking, giving objective form to the world we aim to think and
speak about? These and other questions concerning categories have
been part of philosophy from the very beginning, and they raise
foundational issues in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and other
branches of philosophy. Yet pursuing answers to these questions has
proven difficult, because investigations into categories push us to
the very limits of what we can know. The essays in this volume,
written by a mix of well-established and younger philosophers,
bridge divides between historical and systematic approaches in
philosophy as well divides between analytical, continental, and
American traditions. They offer new interpretations of Aristotle,
Confucius, Aquinas, Buridan, Kant, Pierce, Husserl, and
Wittgenstein, and they challenge received views on normativity, the
value of set theory, the objectivity of category schemes, and other
topics. This volume, the first to offer a comprehensive examination
of the subject, challenges mainstream positions on category theory.
It will be of particular interest to philosophers and others
concerned with how the world is divided.
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