Fostering the Ontological Turn

The series provides a forum for innovative, high-quality work in all fields of analytical philosophy. The volumes in this series are published in either English or German.

Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann's work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Université de Provence in France, and Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in Italy. The fifteen papers collected in this volume were presented at the third of these conferences, in Rome, and are here divided into three sections: "Categories of a realistic ontology", "World, mind, and relations", "Metaphysics of space and time".

1;Contents;7 2;INTRODUCTION;9 3;Categories of a realistic ontology;13 3.1;Fred Wilson UNIVERSALS, PARTICULARS, TROPES AND BLOBS;15 3.2;Herbert Hochberg THE MATTER OF PARTICULARS;45 3.3;Francesco Martinello BARE PARTICULARS: SOME REMARKS;65 3.4;Pasquale Frascolla ON BERGMANNS READINGOF THE TRACTATUS ONTOLOGY;81 3.5;Erwin Tegtmeier COMPLEXES, NEXUS, AND FUNCTIONSTHE MIDDLE AND THE LATE BERGMANN;99 3.6;Guido Bonino BERGMANN AND EXEMPLIFICATION;109 4;World, mind, and relations;123 4.1;Greg Jesson IS INTENTIONALITYMORE LIKE HUNTING OR MORE LIKE HITTING?GUSTAV BERGMANN ON SKEPTICISM AND KNOWLEDGE;125 4.2;Rosaria Egidi BERGMANNS CRITIQUE OF REPRESENTATIONALISM;147 4.3;Francesco Orilia THE PROBLEM OF ORDER IN RELATIONAL STATES OF AFFAIRS:A LEIBNIZIAN VIEW;161 4.4;Alberto Voltolini SINGULAR PROPOSITIONS AS POSSIBLE STATES OF AFFAIRS;187 4.5;Venanzio Raspa ... THE MOST MEMORABLE DON QUIXOTE OF A GREAT CAUSEBERGMANNS CRITIQUE OF MEINONG;201 5;Metaphysics of space and time;229 5.1;Laird Addis PARTICULARS AS AREAS AND DURATIONS;231 5.2;L. Nathan Oaklander IS THERE A DIFFERENCEBETWEEN ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE SPACE?*;243 5.3;Giuliano Torrengo TENSELESS TIME VS. TENSED TRUTHMAKERS;253 5.4;Fabio Minocchio Andrea Pagliardi SOME TROUBLES WITH THE SPECIOUS PRESENTIN BERGMANNS IDEAL LANGUAGE;261 6;Blank Page;2 7;Blank Page;4