Ontology and explanation
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Date
2015
Authors
Mann, Scott
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Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand
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Abstract
This paper critically assesses some recent attempts to develop and update the basic
categories of Aristotle’s ontology, by Jonathan Lowe and Brian Ellis. It defends these
attempts in face of criticisms by John Heil, while also addressing, and responding to,
some possible weaknesses in Lowe and Ellis’s accounts. The paper defends Boyd’s idea
of higher order kinds as homeostatic property clusters.
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Greek studies, Aristotle, Philosophy
Citation
Mann, S., 2015. Ontology and explanation. In: M. Tsianikas, G. Couvalis and M. Palaktsoglou (eds.) "Reading, interpreting, experiencing: an inter-cultural journey into Greek letters". Modern Greek Studies Association of New Zealand, 33-40.