Metaphysics : an introduction to contemporary debates and their history / Anna Marmodoro and Erasmus Mayr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- author.

Mayr, Erasmus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

1 Substance p. 10

1.2 Substance versus properties p. 20

1.3 Bearers of properties or bundles of tropes? p. 25

1.4 Aristotle's hylomorphism p. 33

1.5 How do substances persist? p. 39

2 Properties and Relations p. 47

2.2 Do properties exist? Realism versus nominalism p. 48

2.3 Reductionism and fundamentality p. 59

2.4 Dispositional properties and categorical properties p. 63

2.5 Are powers genuine and irreducible properties? p. 71

2.6 An ontology of pure powers? p. 77

2.7 Relations versus monadic properties p. 83

3 Modality and Essence p. 90

3.2 Aristotle's essentialism p. 92

3.3 Against essentialism and non-logical necessity: Quine's critique of de re necessity p. 96

3.4 The revival of de re necessity and essentialism p. 105

3.4.1 Possible worlds p. 106

3.4.2 A posteriori necessity p. 114

3.5 Powers and modality p. 121

4 Causality p. 128

4.2 Some neo-Humean developments p. 134

4.3 Aristotle's theory of causation p. 147

4.4 Are there active and passive powers involved in causation? p. 154

4.5 Mental causation p. 158

5 Determinism and Free Will p. 170

5.2 A brief history of compatibilism and incompatibilism p. 174

5.3 The consequence argument and the fortunes of incompatibilism p. 180

5.4 Moral responsibility and free will p. 190

5.5 Free will and the "new dispositionalism" p. 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.

ISBN:

9780190941628

0190941626

9780190941611

0190941618

OCLC:

1091585148