Nature's Perspectives, Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics [first edition]

Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Notes and Reflections on Justus Buchler Sidney Gelber Part One: Critical and Systematic Overview Introduction to Part One Toward a Radical Naturalism Sidney Gelber Buchler's Metaphysics Richard J. Bernstein Nature, Power and Prospect: Justus Buchler''s System of Philosophy Sidney Gelber and Kathleen Wallace Part Two: General Ontology Introduction to Part Two Substitutes for Substance Beth J. Singer The Concept of Identity in Justus Buchler and Mahayana Buddhism Marjorie Cantor Miller The Nature of Categorical Theory Abraham Edel Possibility: Three Recent Ontologies Phil Weiss Ordinal Possibility: A Metaphysical Concept Kathleen Wallace Weiss/Wallace Discussion: Possibility and Metaphysics Weiss, Possibility: Temperament and Argument Wallace: Skeptical Openness Ordinality and Materialism John Ryder Part Three: Systematic Extensions and Applications Introduction to Part Three Natural Obligation, Natural Appropriation Matthew Lipman Relativism and Metaphysics: On Justus Buchler and Richard Rorty Lawrence E. Cahoone The Assertive, the Active, and the Exhibitive I. A. Richards Reading Poems with Buchler Roland Garrett Reference, Interpretation, and Articulation: Rethinking Meaning in the Arts Armen Marsoobian Exhibitive Judgment and Freud: Toward a New Interpretation of Dreams Ann-Mari Wallen Wachter Buchler's Conception of Community James Campbell Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology Peter H. Hare and John Ryder Ordinality and the Divine Natures Robert S. Corrington Contributors Bibliography of Secondary Works on Justus Buchler Name Index Subject Index