Introduction - Andrea Bottani and Richard Davies who had thrown a quick glance at the pages of the volume that is holding will perhaps think that it is under a not insignificant aspect, a strange book. The essays that fill its pages can all relate - in various ways and more or less closely - to that line of study that has now become customary to call "analytic ontology." But the title that the book proudly carries no traffic and no right of ordinary citizens in the same line of study. As you know, the term "regional ontologies" is minting Husserl, from Husserl in the thought of philosophers like Heidegger, Ingarden, and others. So - could be made to think - this is a book "analytic" with a title "Continental".
But the choice of this "strange" title is not an unfortunate accident or a clerical error of curators distracted. E 'instead an expression of the idea that Husserl's conception of ontology, as it focuses on the distinction between a "formal ontology" and an "ontology of material" in turn divided into a series of "regional ontologies", is particularly suitable for describe and understand what ontology is and what it has become in recent decades - particularly in the field of analytical with the significant recent developments in ontologies implemented in a number of fields of knowledge and activities also very heterogeneous between them. This is, of course, far from being random, being an author from which stem some of the ideas and methods that made possible the development of analytical trend from the late nineteenth century in here, from the particular importance is attached to the instrument of logical analysis in philosophy. No wonder that the Husserlian term "formal ontology" has won and kept a lot of spread in the analytical framework, albeit often uses all'accezione original infidels. For unfathomable reasons, the effective term "ontology government "has not been the same happy fate. By choosing this title, we hope to contribute at least in part to remedy injustice.
Husserl distinguishes between "formal ontology" and "ontology material" in Ideen. The general idea is that the formal ontology is identified with the study of the kind of life, property, relation, genus, species, identity, unity, plurality, number, part, whole, addiction and so on. Husserl calls these groups "formal" because they qualify the "form" of an entity, regarded as distinct from its material realization. Taken together, the formal categories define general features, necessary and constitutive of reality as such. This explains why the formal ontology is sometimes described as the study of "the most general traits of reality, or - one might even say with some more daring - as a sort of Aristotelian" science of being qua being. " The ontology material is directed instead to the study of reality in terms of its specific material constitution, unfolding in a wide range of "regional ontologies" aimed at investigating the ontological structure of domains confined to institutions (especially those of the individual sciences, but then also areas of special entities such as those treated in the chapters of this book).
Different interpretations have bent the distinction between formal ontology and material ontology in different directions, not always converge. We believe it is important to note that the "regional geography" which explores the ontology of material has its counterpart in linguistic lexical apparatus, and the system of formal ontology categories investigated has its counterpart in an apparatus of linguistic and grammatical categories logical operations defined on them. For example, treat the question of the existence of artifacts as a matter of competence of the ontology of the material rather than formal ontology (ie come un fatto pertinente alla struttura materiale della realtà invece che alla sua struttura formale) equivale a trattare “artefatti” come una semplice voce del lessico (invece che alla stregua di una costante logica). E trattare la questione della esistenza di universali come una faccenda di competenza della ontologia formale anziché della ontologia materiale (cioè come un fatto pertinente alla struttura formale della realtà anziché alla sua struttura materiale) equivale a trattare la copula – presunta espressione del nesso di esemplificazione di proprietà universali da parte di individui – come una costante logica, e non come una semplice voce del lessico materiale. Poiché la demarcazione fra questioni di competenza ontology of the material and the affairs of the formal ontology - however you want to track - is essentially isomorphic to the apparatus line between lexical and grammatical-logical apparatus, the distinction between formal ontology and material ontology can be interpreted as essentially parallel to the distinction between lexicon and grammar.
The dividing line between ontology and metaphysics outlined in White and Bottani 2003 follows this approach rather closely. There are assumptions that existential sentences convey under its own vocabulary and assumptions that they convey existential virtue of its logical form, and these types of assumptions correspond to different levels of ontological commitment. The ontology ontological commitments currency level "lower" (for the vocabulary) and the metaphysical exchange of ontological commitments 'higher' level (for the apparatus of the categories of grammar and logic operations defined on them). In a certain way to distinguish the existential questions of competence of metaphysics than the competence of the ontology is equivalent to demarcate a certain way the apparatus from the apparatus logical vocabulary. Here "metaphysical" matches "formal ontology" and "ontology" to "material ontology." But, however important it may be, the choice of words is not what matters most in this approach. What matters most is that there is a discipline (which we call "ontology", or in any other way) that deals with what exists and its partitions (which we call "ontology material" and "formal ontology", but in any other way) can not be distinguished mainly by their degree of formality, or because only the first to say what exists and what is second only to that which exists (or vice versa), but because of assess ontological commitments of various types and levels, corresponding to the distinction between material structure and formal structure of the world and the parallel distinction between system and apparatus of the lexicon logical.
metaontologico the background of an approach of this nature, the book offers a tour hopefully informative but inevitably some 'sporadic in some of the most interesting rooms of incomplete and unsystematic "geography of ontological regions". Almost always, visit the rooms are very far apart, and even visiting program faces are not just different from case to case. They range from explorations rather than systematic and regional overviews of a single space in densely-argued and detailed analysis of some interesting section, angle or view. Some of the explored regions also seem to be placed on the border between "ontology material" and ontology "formal" (in the case of "Changes" and "Borders"). For all these reasons, as we said, the book is unsystematic, a feature that might be unexpected in the case of ontology as a discipline classificatory material. Thus, the ontological regions surveyed by the various contributions do not have all the same level of generality and can even give you is, from time to time, some overlap between the two. This shows that the volume is, so to speak, a series of regional maps extrapolated from the global map of the continent in which the regions described are located - a choice largely forced by the collective nature of the volume. But the ontological regions explored by the various contributions are linked by their importance to the philosophy and common sense and their centrality in our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
People, types, artifacts, mental events, works of art, borders, institutions merely possible, fantasy creatures, mergers, changes ... What kinds of things are these? What are distinguished from each other? What is the relationship they have with time, space, the size of the mode, the disparate practices and human conventions? Of these families, yet mysterious entity, the authors of this volume investigate the ontological structure, the very nature and rules detection by moving from philosophical assumptions and methodological approaches and sometimes autonomous, we believe, instructively divergent.
Links
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Indice
1. Persone
Quanto conta la causalità della mente per l’identità personale
Andrea Bottani
(Università di Bergamo)
2. Fusioni
Sulla presunta innocenza della mereologia
Massimiliano Carrara e Enrico Martino
(Università di Padova)
3. Sorte
Quando una cosa è a
Richard Davies (University of Bergamo)
4. Changes
Maps Leibnizian
Stefano Di Bella (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
5. Mind
Variety emergentism
Michele Di Francesco (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
6. Documents
ontology of the artwork and the document
Maurizio Ferraris (University of Turin)
7. Possibilia
Against the conception of the possible conferring
Vittorio Morato (University of Padova)
8. Artifacts
Analysis of anti-realist argument
Marzia Soavi (University of Padova)
9. Borders
Where does one thing and another begins
Achille C.
Varzi (Columbia University, New York)
10. Ficta
Consequences of creationism
Voltolini
Alberto (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia)
presentation of the book Ontologies regional
by Andrea Bottani and Richard Davies
(University of Bergamo)
The task traditionally assigned to the ontology was to outline the universal principles dell''essere as being ', namely the deep structure of what is the substance. Unlike dell''ontologia general ', the studi che, prendendo spunto da Husserl, si chiamano ‘ontologie regionali’ si prefiggono di indagare i contorni di categorie più circoscritte o specifiche per mettere in luce le loro peculiarità. Muovendo da varie impostazioni metodologiche gli autori di questo volume sottopongono a disamina una serie di concetti che si prestano ad analisi ontologica, quali persone, eventi mentali, cambiamenti, sorte, insiemi, artefatti, documenti, copie, finzioni e oggetti meramente possibili.
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