Varieties of things: foundations of contemporary metaphysics
This text explores the different ontological categories of things that we encounter in everyday life, including material substances, persons, abstract things and universals. It also contains a thorough discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics.
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Malden, MA [u.a.]
Blackwell
2005
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| Zusammenfassung: | This text explores the different ontological categories of things that we encounter in everyday life, including material substances, persons, abstract things and universals. It also contains a thorough discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. |
| Beschreibung: | X, 278 S. |
| ISBN: | 0631186948 0631186956 |
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Autor: Macdonald, Cynthia
Jahr: 2005
Contents
Preface vii
Part I: Metaphysics and Its Tools
1 The Nature and Function of Metaphysics 3
The Methodology and Subject Matter of Metaphysics 4
Aristode s Conception of Metaphysics 8
Kant s Conception of Metaphysics 11
A Working Conception of Metaphysics 14
2 Some Tools of Metaphysics 36
Criteria of Ontological Commitment: Two Examples 36
No Entity without Identity : Identity Conditions
for Objects 56
Individuation Conditions, Identity Conditions,
and Metaphysical Kinds 59
Principles and Criteria of Identity 63
Part II: Particulars
3 Material Substances 79
Our Ontological Commitment to Material Substances 79
The Bündle Theory and the Principle of the Identity
of Indiscernibles 81
Problems with the Bündle Theory 84
The Bare Substratum Theory and the Principle
of Acquaintance 110
Objections to the Bare Substratum Theory 113
An Alternative 114
Contents
4 Persons and Personal Identity 135
Our Ontological Commitment to Persons 135
Candidates for Persistence Conditions for Persons 138
The Closest Continuer Theory and Its Problems 150
Does the Concept of Identity Apply to Persons? 155
The Multiple Occupancy Thesis 162
Back to Basics: Continuity and Fission 164
A Suggestion 169
5 Events 181
Our Ontological Commitment to Events 183
Three Criteria: Spatio-temporal Coincidence,
Necessary Spatio-temporal Coincidence,
and Sameness of Cause and Effect 186
The Property Exemplification Account of Events (PEE) 193
Part Dl: Universals
6 Universals and the Realism/Nominalism Dispute 219
The Issue 223
Varieties of Nominalism 225
Two Conceptions of Universals 236
The Regress Charge and Two Unsuccessful Attempts
to Meet It 239
An Alternative 245
Bibliography 260
Index 272
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