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The metaphysics of relations / edited by Anna Marmodoro and David Yates.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- editor.
Yates, David (Senior research fellow), editor.
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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