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Tag: van Inwagen

  • Pre-Print: Peter van Inwagen, Existence: Essays in Ontology

    The following review article is scheduled to appear later this year in Studia Neoscholastica.  The editor grants me permission to reproduce it here should anyone have comments that might lead to its improvement. REVIEW ARTICLE William F. Vallicella  Peter van Inwagen, Existence: Essays in Ontology, Cambridge University Press, 2014, viii + 261 pp. This volume…

  • Van Inwagen on the Univocity of ‘Exists’

    In "Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment" (in Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, eds. Chalmers et al., Oxford 2009, pp. 472-506), Peter van Inwagen argues that 'exists' is univocal: it does not have "different meanings when applied to objects in different categories." (482)  This post will examine one of his arguments, an argument…