This volume is devoted to problems within analytic metaphysics. It defends an ontology and
theory of categories inspired by Aristotle but revised in such a way as to be compatible with
modern science. The ontology of both natural and social reality is addressed starting out from
the view that universals exist but only in the spatiotemporal world (immanent realism). In
attempting to bring Aristotle's ontology up-to-date the author relies very much on the
thinking of Edmund Husserl conceiving the cement of the universe as Husserlian relations of
existential dependence and regarding intentionality as a non-reducible category in the ontology
of mind. The work is thoroughly realistic in spirit but large parts of it should nonetheless
be of interest to conceptualists and nominalists too.
