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The metaphysics of relations / edited by Anna Marmodoro and David Yates.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mind Association occasional series.
- Mind Association occasional series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- In this work, 15 philosophers offer new essays exploring the metaphysics of relations from antiquity to the present day. From those who question whether there are relational properties at all, to those who hold they are a fundamental part of reality, the essays cover a wide range of views on the nature and ontological status of relations.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations / Anna Marmodoro & David Yates
- Relations as Plural Predications in Plato / Theodore Scaltsas
- Aristotelian vs Contemporary Perspectives on Relations / Jeffrey E. Brower
- Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents? / Sydney Penner
- Positionalism Revisited / Maureen Donnelly
- There Are (Probably) No Relations / E. Jonathan Lowe
- External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency / Peter Simons
- Causal Relations / John Heil
- Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? / David Yates
- What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could Not Be / Nora Berenstain
- The Foundations of Structuralism and the Metaphysics of Relations / James Ladyman
- Relations All the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism / Sebastián Briceño and Stephen Mumford
- The Reality of Relations: the Case From Quantum Physics / Michael Esfeld
- Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Monism and Quantum Becoming / Mauro Dorato.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-108693-2
- 0-19-179983-1
- 0-19-105474-7
- OCLC:
- 936118093
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