Contemporary Polish Ontology

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This book is a collection of articles authored by renowed Polish ontologists living and working in the early part of the 21st century. Harking back to the well-known Polish Lvov-Warsaw School, founded by Kazimierz Twardowski, we try to make our ontological considerations as systematically rigorous and clear as possible – i.e. to the greatest extent feasible, but also no more than the subject under consideration itself allows for. Hence, the papers presented here do not seek to steer clear of methods of inquiry typical of either the formal or the natural sciences: on the contrary, they use such methods wherever possible. At the same time, despite their adherence to rigorous methods, the Polish ontologists included here do not avoid traditional ontological issues, being inspired as they most certainly are by the great masters of Western philosophy – from Plato and Aristotle, through St. Thomas and Leibniz, to Husserl, to name arguably just the most important. Contents Some Introductory Thoughts on Contemporary Polish Ontology On Essential Structures and Symmetries Prospects for an Animalistically Oriented Simple View How Long Does the Present Last? The Problem of Fissuration in Roman Ingarden’s Ontology The Subject’s Forms of Knowledge and the Question of Being The World as an Object of Formal Philosophy Logic and the Ontology of Language Benedict Bornstein’s Ontological Elements of Reality On the Topological Modelling of Ontological Objects: Substance in the Monadology Does Mathematical Possibility Imply Existence? Neologicism for Real(s) – Are We There Yet? Possible Worlds and Situations: How Can They Meet Up? The Ontologic of Actions “Physical Intentionality” and the Thomistic Theory of Formal Objects An Assessment of Contemporary Polish Ontology Author Index