Substance

Donnchadh O'Conaill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

75 Seiten

2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-94074-0 (ISBN)

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Substance has long been one of the key categories in metaphysics. This Element focuses on contemporary work on substance, and in particular on contemporary substance ontologies, metaphysical systems in which substance is one of the fundamental categories and individual substances are among the basic building blocks of reality. The topics discussed include the different metaphysical roles which substances have been tasked with playing; different critieria of substancehood (accounts of what is it to be a substance); arguments for and against the existence of substances; and different accounts of which entities, if any, count as substances.

1. Introduction; 2. Roles; 3. Criteria of Substancehood: Independence; 4. Criteria of Substancehood: Grounding and Explanation; 5. Further Criteria of Substancehood; 6. Arguments For and Against Substances; 7. Candidate Substances; References.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Metaphysics
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	140 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	1-108-94074-9 / 1108940749
ISBN-13	978-1-108-94074-0 / 9781108940740
Zustand	Neuware