2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of the Revival of Ontology in Analytic Philosophy
| Project/Area Number |
25580004
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Nihon University (2014-2015)
University of Miyazaki (2013) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 分析哲学 / 存在論 / 形而上学 / 分析形而上学 / メタ形而上学 / 存在の謎 / 検証原理 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Looking into the controversy about the Riddle of Existence (Why is there something rather than nothing?), we can know that ontology has been restored in the contemporary analytic philosophy. The causes of its restoration are; the difficulty lurking in the principle of verification, Quine’s holism, Strawson’s descriptive metaphysics, and Kripke’s theory of rigid designators. But adhering to scientism, Quine’s contribution was limited. While Strawson examined the structure of concepts, the contemporary ontology examines the structure of reality. It provides a priori but fallible knowledge. It is realistic and independent of, though deeply concerned with, the empirical sciences.
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| Free Research Field |
哲学
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