An Ontology of Ideas

被引：9

作者：

Cray, Wesley ^{[1
]}

Schroeder, Timothy ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Grand Valley State Univ, Allendale, MI 49401 USA

[2] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77251 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION | 2015年 / 1卷 / 04期

关键词：

ideas; mental states; ontology; philosophy of art;

D O I：

10.1017/apa.2015.28

中图分类号：

B [哲学、宗教];

学科分类号：

01 ; 0101 ;

摘要：

Philosophers often talk about and engage with ideas. Scientists, artists, and historians do, too. But what is an idea? In this paper, we first motivate the desire for an ontology of ideas before discussing what conditions a candidate ontology would have to satisfy to be minimally adequate. We then offer our own account of the ontology of ideas and consider various strategies for specifying the underlying metaphysics of the account. We conclude with a discussion of potential future work to be done on the ontology of ideas.

引用

页码：757 / 775

页数：19

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