Possibility precedes actuality

TE Tahko - Erkenntnis, 2023 - Springer
This paper is inspired by and develops on EJ Lowe's work, who writes in his book The
Possibility of Metaphysics that 'metaphysical possibility is an inescapable determinant of …

Natural Kind Essentialism

TE Tahko - The Routledge Handbook of Essence in Philosophy, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Natural kind essentialism (NKE) is a specification of the intuitive idea that there are some
mind-independent or objective categories in nature. These categories are thought to be …

Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics

JD Rooney - 2022 - torrossa.com
A plum tree without snow does not shine forth; Snow, without poetry, is overly common; At
sunset, a poem finished, heaven again brings snow; Together with the plum trees, spring is …

Instantiation and Characterization: Problems in Lowe's Four–Category Ontology

M Keinänen - Studies in the Ontology of EJ Lowe, 2018 - books.google.com
In his main ontological wors, EJ Lowe develops and presents a NeoY Aristotelian category
system, Four-Category Ontology (Lowe 1998, 2006, 2009). The category system involves …

Taxonomy of relations: Internal and external

J Hakkarainen, M Keinänen, A Keskinen - 2018 - philpapers.org
In this paper, we discern different types of possible relations. We focus on the distinction
between internal and external relations and their various possible sub-types. In the first …

An Informed Convergence: Confucian, Thomistic, and Contemporary Appeals to Substantial Form

JD Rooney - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Hylomorphism is a theory that has regained prominence in contemporary metaphysics,
explaining the unity of composite material objects by appeal to a special metaphysical part …

Чотирикатегорiальна онтологiя Едварда Джонатана Лоу (огляд)

K Rayhert - Actual Problems of Mind, 2018 - journal.kdpu.edu.ua
Анотацiя. Британський аналiтичний фiлософ Едвард Джонатан Лоу створює
чотирикатегорiальну онтологiю як основу для метафiзики як теорiї категорiй …