Forms and structure in Plato's metaphysics / Anna Marmodoro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marmodoro, Anna, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Anaxagoras.

Form (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 223 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

This book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers from antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical account of objects and their properties. The book's subject matter is of wide interest to philosophers and historians of philosophy alike. The methodology applied in the study of the subject matter in this book also facilitates reaching out to both domains of readership. The innovative (and possibly controversial) claims made in the book will spark debate and bring the book at the forefront of current discussions in philosophy.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Anaxagoras's metaphysical foundations

1.1. Introduction

1.2. What there is

1.3. Opposite properties and their causal efficacy

1.4. Like causes like

1.5. Gunky Opposites

1.5.1. The Opposites exist as unlimitedly divided into parts

1.5.2. The Opposites are homoeomers

1.6. Closing remarks

2. Making things up

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Presence and preponderance of Opposites

2.3. A bundle theory of objects

2.4. Seeds of structure

2.5. The world is one

2.6. The role of nous

2.7. Closing remarks

Appendix: What are Plato and Aristotle complaining about?

3. Plato's Forms as powers

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The Eleatic Principle

3.3. The Forms as causes

3.4. Transcendent powers

3.5. Closing remarks

4. Forms in objects

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Being present in versus belonging to an object

4.3. Presence or communion?

4.4. The non-​recurrence of Forms

4.5. The Forms' uniqueness

4.6. The Paradox of Smallness

4.7. Is self-​predication self-​predication?

4.8. Quantitative or functional parts of Forms?

4.9. Closing remarks

5. Parts, or no parts?

5.1. Introduction

5.2. The Forms as logical fusions

5.3. Being monoeides versus being a homoeomer

5.4. Platonic hylomorphism

5.5. Composite by becoming: the Third Man Argument

5.6. Closing remarks

6. Overlap, relations and relatives

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Plural partaking: joint-​partaking and parallel-​partaking

6.2.1. Symmetric 'relations' as joint-​partaking

6.2.2. Asymmetric 'relations' as parallel-​partaking

6.2.3. Multigrade 'relations'

6.3. Necessity as plural partaking

6.4. Regresses of Great Kinds

6.5. Building the paradeigma

6.6. Closing remarks.

Appendix: Reifying relatives: the Forms of Master and Slave

7. The paradeigma shift

7.1. Introduction

7.2. The Third Man Argument resolved

7.3. Being, becoming, and time

7.4. Transcendent necessity

7.5. The Demiurge and the paradeigma

7.6. Geometrical chemistry

7.7. Top-​down and bottom-​up structure

7.8. Closing remarks

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-757717-2

0-19-757716-4

0-19-757718-0

OCLC:

1240826557