Gary S Rosenkrantz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5911285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary S Rosenkrantz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenkrantz |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENKRANTZ G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Companion to Metaphysics
Platonistic Theories of Universals
Platonistic realism asserts the existence of one or more kinds of abstract entities. Necessarily, a Platonic realist is a realist about abstract entities. However, some (but not all) Platonic realists are realists about universals. Thus, a thorough defence of Platonic realism calls for, as a preliminary, an adequate exposition or analysis of the notion of an abstract entity, and an adequate exposition or analysis of the notion of a universal. The…
An Epistemic Argument for Enduring Human Persons
A typical human person has privileged epistemic access to its identity over time in virtue of having a first-person point of view. In explaining this phenomenon in terms of an intimate relation of self-attribution or the like, I infer that a typical human person has direct consciousness of itself through inner awareness or personal memory. Direct consciousness of oneself is consciousness of oneself, but not by consciousness of something else. Yet…
Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons
The Possibility of Metaphysics
Substance
Introduction Chapter One: The Concept of Substance in History Chapter Two: An Independence theory of Substance Chapter Three: On the Unity of the Parts of Mereological Compounds Chapter Four: On the Unity of the Parts of Organisms Chapter Five: What Kinds of Physical Substances Are There? Appendix: Organisms and Natural Kinds
A Realistic Theory of Categories
Substance Among Other Categories
Substance among Other Categories
Substance among Other Categories
This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop an account of what an individual substance is in terms of independence from other beings. In the process many other im…
The Immaterial Self
Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial self. John Foster's new book expo…
Are Souls Unintelligible
The Nature of God
items whose existence and nature do not depend on minds. Grossmann develops his empiricism and realism by interacting with prominent figures from the history of philosophy. He devotes chapters, for example, to Descartes, Berkeley, Reid, Kant, and Brentano on perception, and to Kant, Bolzano, Mill, and Frege on mathematical knowledge. These historical chapters, typically concise, clear, and illuminating, are followed by systematic chapters on the …
The Independence Criterion of Substance
According to a traditional view-, an individual substance is that which could exist all by itself or which in some sense is independent. In this paper, we construct a new version of an analysis of the notion of substance in terms of independence, and argue for its adequacy. It should be noted that our project is to analyze the concept of individual substance as ordinarily understood, paradigm instances of which seem to be particular material obje…
Omnipotence Redux
God and Skepticism
Hard and Soft Facts
The Possibility of Metaphysics
The Independence Criterion of Substance
According to a traditional view-, an individual substance is that which could exist all by itself or which in some sense is independent. In this paper, we construct a new version of an analysis of the notion of substance in terms of independence, and argue for its adequacy. It should be noted that our project is to analyze the concept of individual substance as ordinarily understood, paradigm instances of which seem to be particular material obje…
Omnipotence Redux
The Nature of God
items whose existence and nature do not depend on minds. Grossmann develops his empiricism and realism by interacting with prominent figures from the history of philosophy. He devotes chapters, for example, to Descartes, Berkeley, Reid, Kant, and Brentano on perception, and to Kant, Bolzano, Mill, and Frege on mathematical knowledge. These historical chapters, typically concise, clear, and illuminating, are followed by systematic chapters on the …
Hard and Soft Facts
Hard and Soft Facts
God and Skepticism
Omnipotence Redux
Are Souls Unintelligible
The Nature of God
items whose existence and nature do not depend on minds. Grossmann develops his empiricism and realism by interacting with prominent figures from the history of philosophy. He devotes chapters, for example, to Descartes, Berkeley, Reid, Kant, and Brentano on perception, and to Kant, Bolzano, Mill, and Frege on mathematical knowledge. These historical chapters, typically concise, clear, and illuminating, are followed by systematic chapters on the …
The Independence Criterion of Substance
According to a traditional view-, an individual substance is that which could exist all by itself or which in some sense is independent. In this paper, we construct a new version of an analysis of the notion of substance in terms of independence, and argue for its adequacy. It should be noted that our project is to analyze the concept of individual substance as ordinarily understood, paradigm instances of which seem to be particular material obje…
Substance among Other Categories
This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop an account of what an individual substance is in terms of independence from other beings. In the process many other im…
The Immaterial Self
Dualism argues that the mind is more than just the brain. It holds that there exists two very different realms, one mental and the other physical. Both are fundamental and one cannot be reduced to the other - there are minds and there is a physical world. This book examines and defends the most famous dualist account of the mind, the cartesian, which attributes the immaterial contents of the mind to an immaterial self. John Foster's new book expo…
Substance among Other Categories
Substance Among Other Categories
A Realistic Theory of Categories
Substance
Introduction Chapter One: The Concept of Substance in History Chapter Two: An Independence theory of Substance Chapter Three: On the Unity of the Parts of Mereological Compounds Chapter Four: On the Unity of the Parts of Organisms Chapter Five: What Kinds of Physical Substances Are There? Appendix: Organisms and Natural Kinds
Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons
The Possibility of Metaphysics
Platonistic Theories of Universals
Platonistic realism asserts the existence of one or more kinds of abstract entities. Necessarily, a Platonic realist is a realist about abstract entities. However, some (but not all) Platonic realists are realists about universals. Thus, a thorough defence of Platonic realism calls for, as a preliminary, an adequate exposition or analysis of the notion of an abstract entity, and an adequate exposition or analysis of the notion of a universal. The…
An Epistemic Argument for Enduring Human Persons
A typical human person has privileged epistemic access to its identity over time in virtue of having a first-person point of view. In explaining this phenomenon in terms of an intimate relation of self-attribution or the like, I infer that a typical human person has direct consciousness of itself through inner awareness or personal memory. Direct consciousness of oneself is consciousness of oneself, but not by consciousness of something else. Yet…
A Companion to Metaphysics
Philosophy (15 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Analytic philosophy (3 works) · Contemporary philosophy (3 works) · General interest (3 works)