Meixner Modelling Metaphysics

The Metaphysics of a Model
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032608-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 34, 274 Seiten

Reihe: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis

This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model. The small size of the model makes it possible to treat metaphysical matters with a more than usual systematicity and comprehensiveness. In the mirror of sustained analogy, simulation-metaphysics offers a wealth of insights on the real thing: on the doctrines, the methods, and the epistemology of metaphysics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meixner, Uwe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;1 Preface and introduction;9
2;2 The basic description of Model T;15
2.1;2.1 Mathematical representation;21
3;3 Ontological categories for T;23
3.1;3.1 Basic universals;23
3.2;3.2 Individuals which are basic or immediately derivative;26
3.2.1;3.2.1 Spatial configurations;26
3.2.1.1;3.2.1.1 Spatial parthood for spatial configurations;29
3.2.2;3.2.2 Temporal configurations;30
3.2.2.1;3.2.2.1 Direction and relative position for temporal configurations;33
3.3;3.3 States of affairs;39
3.3.1;3.3.1 Time-dependent but not time-thematic states of affairs;40
3.3.1.1;3.3.1.1 Additional perspectives on not time-dependent, but time-thematic states of affairs;47
3.3.2;3.3.2 Time-dependent and time-thematic states of affairs – and the nature of indexical time-thematicness;48
3.4;3.4 Events as sequences of momentary states;52
3.4.1;3.4.1 Events and states of affairs;55
3.5;3.5 Basic tropes;58
3.5.1;3.5.1 Basic spatiotemporal tropes as fundamental or derivative entities;60
3.6;3.6 Worlds and modal positions;64
4;4 Uniformity and diversiformity of histories and of maximally composite momentary states;67
4.1;4.1 Regularities of histories;73
4.1.1;4.1.1 Regularities and laws (of nature);77
4.2;4.2 Uniformity, regularities, laws, and actuality;81
5;5 Actuality and other modalities for T;83
5.1;5.1 Temporal and historical relativization of statements about T;83
5.1.1;5.1.1 The varieties of historical relativization;89
5.2;5.2 The plurality of actuality-predicates, basic and defined;93
5.2.1;5.2.1 Actuality – in two ways non-relativized;98
5.2.2;5.2.2 Actualization** and what is behind it;108
5.3;5.3 Possibility and necessity for T;116
5.3.1;5.3.1 History-relative and/or time-relative necessity and possibility for T;124
5.4;5.4 The immanent and transcendent perspective on modality and time;132
6;6 The physics of H*;137
6.1;6.1 The first two of the laws for T/the laws of H*;139
6.2;6.2 The Third Law for T and the supervenience of atomic higher continuants relative to H*;142
6.3;6.3 Democriteanism and four-dimensionalism for H* and the transhistorical identity of atomic higher continuants;153
6.3.1;6.3.1 Four-dimensionalist counterpartism;163
6.3.2;6.3.2 Four-dimensionalism without counterpartism;165
6.4;6.4 Final determinations on atomic material objects;166
6.4.1;6.4.1 The strong essentiality of origin for atomic material objects;169
6.5;6.5 Candidates for further laws for T, and more on the laws for T;171
6.5.1;6.5.1 The Candidate Fifth Law for T;179
6.5.2;6.5.2 The regulation of collision;186
6.5.3;6.5.3 The Candidate Sixth Law for T;194
6.6;6.6 The canon of the laws for T;199
6.7;6.7 The initial state;204
7;7 Five T-metaphysical issues and the metaphysics of Reality;211
7.1;7.1 The completion of the rules of ACTUHIST;211
7.2;7.2 Physicalism and dualism with regard to Model T;219
7.3;7.3 T-immanent and T-transcendent causation;229
7.4;7.4 Composite T-material objects;246
7.4.1;7.4.1 Typical material objects in Reality and their T-analogues;258
7.4.2;7.4.2 Objections to taking the sequential T-material* objects as the Tanalogues of the typical material objects;264
7.4.3;7.4.3 The transtemporal and transhistorical identity of T-material* objects;266
7.5;7.5 T-metaphysical teleology;268
8;Index of concepts and principles;273