Substance: its nature and existence
Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first accessible introductions to the history and contemporary debates surrounding the idea of substance. An important and often complex issue, substance is at the heart of Western philosophy. Substances are distinguished from other kinds of entities...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first accessible introductions to the history and contemporary debates surrounding the idea of substance. An important and often complex issue, substance is at the heart of Western philosophy. Substances are distinguished from other kinds of entities such as properties, events, times, and places. This book investigates the very nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects Taking as their starting point the major philosophers in the historical debate - Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, and Hume - Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz move on to a novel analysis of substance in terms of a kind of independence which insubstantial entities do not possess. The authors explore causal theories of the unity of the parts of inanimate objects and organisms; contemporary views about substance; the idea that the only existing physical substances are inanimate pieces of matter and living organisms, and that artifacts such as clocks, and natural formations like stars, do not really exist. Substance: Its Nature and Existence provides students of philosophy and metaphysics with an introduction to and critical engagement with a key philosophical issue |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 218 S. |
| ISBN: | 0415112508 0415140323 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
1
Substance
and folk ontology
1
2
Kinds of physical substance
3
3
The concept of a spiritual substance
5
4
Skepticism about substance
7
1
The concept of substance in history
9
1
Two Aristotelian theories: substance as that which
can undergo change and as that which is neither
said-of nor in a subject
9
2
Substratum and inherence theories of substance
17
3
Independence theories of substance
20
4
Cluster theories of substance
26
2
An independence theory of substance
43
1
Some difficulties for an independence theory of
substance
43
2
Ontologicul
categories
46
3
Substance
50
4
Properties and tropes
53
5
Places, times, and limits
55
6
Events
60
7
Privation
63
8
Collections
69
9
Other categories
69
3
On the unity of the parts of mereological compounds
73
1
Kinds of compound physical things and their unity
73
2
Two senses of substance
74
viii Contents
3
Skepticism about the commonsense view of compound
objects
77
4
Preliminary data for analyses of unity
79
j
An analysis of the unity of a mereological compound
80
4
On the unity of the parts of organisms
91
1
The concept of organic life
91
2
Organisms and Aristotelian functions
93
3
What is the causal relation that unites the parts of an
organism?
99
4
Aristotle s account of unity
100
5
Evolution, natural selection, and natural function
102
6
The emergence of life and natural function
105
7
An account of natural function
115
8
The degree of naturalness of an individual s life-
processes
118
9
Vital parts and joint natural functions
121
10
Regulation and functional subordination
126
11
A preliminary analysis of unity
128
12
A final analysis of unity
133
13
Functional connectedness among basic biotic parts
135
14
Nonbasic
biotic parts
142
75
Problem cases
145
5
What kinds of physical substances are there?
150
1
Atoms, mereological compounds, and ordinary
physical objects
150
2
The problem of increase
154
J
Another conundrum: does mereological increase
imply that a thing is a proper part of itself?
160
4
The problem of the ship of Theseus
163
5
The scientific argument against the reality of artifacts
and typical natural formations
165
6
The explosion of reality: a population explosion for
living things?
177
7
Is there a principle of composition for physical
things?
179
Appendix: Organisms and natural kinds
188
Notes
192
Index
215
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