{"product_id":"what-is-and-what-is-in-itself-a-systematic-ontology-9780192856135","title":"What Is, and What Is in Itself: A Systematic Ontology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Merrihew Adams\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Archaeology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is ''a systematic ontology.'' Ontology is the study of \u003cem\u003ebeing\u003c\/em\u003e as such, and a systematic ontology is an account of the most fundamental ways of \u003cem\u003ebeing\u003c\/em\u003e something or other - of what they are and of how they are related to each other. The questions it pursues are not primarily about what \u003cem\u003ecauses\u003c\/em\u003e things, but about what things \u003cem\u003eare\u003c\/em\u003e or consist in - though causal questions cannot be totally avoided. The title of the work, \u003cem\u003eWhat Is, and What Is in Itself\u003c\/em\u003e, marks the most important distinction in ways of being. What \u003cem\u003eis\u003c\/em\u003e includes everything there is, but not everything there is included in what \u003cem\u003eis in itself\u003c\/em\u003e. The first five chapters of the book define and examine the ways of being: in chapters 1 and 2, being actual or existing, or even just being something without existing or being actual; in chapter 3, being an intentional object, and perhaps a \u003cem\u003emerely\u003c\/em\u003e intentional object; in chapter 4, relations between things and their properties; and in chapter 5, being a thing in itself. Chapter 6 discusses whether only conscious beings are things in themselves, and suggests an affirmative answer. Chapter 7 discusses the epistemology of ontology. Chapters 8 and 9 discuss issues about thisness and identity. And chapters 10 and 11 discuss mainly occasionalist and panentheist answers to questions about the causal unity of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47779691757719,"sku":"9780192856135","price":11398.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780192856135.webp?v=1778038478","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/what-is-and-what-is-in-itself-a-systematic-ontology-9780192856135","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}