Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy
Ontological Bases of Naturalism
Duration: 2004 - 2007
Code: HUM2004-05609-C02-02 (DGI)
Principal Investigator
Summary
The goal of the project is contributing to articulate an ontological framework invoking as crucial notions those of truth-maker and ontological dependence. The general hypothesis is that such a framework, as opposed to the one inherited from Quine (“On What There Is”), is required in contemporary debates about the relations of constitution and identity for material objects, response-dependent properties, propositional attitudes, realization of mental properties and the perspectives of naturalism, propositional attitudes, and the fictive/figurative analysis of several discourses. The project will be developed both by studying the central notions required for the articulation of the framework, and by applying it to several salient contemporary debates in ontology, the aforementioned among them.
