Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 306 g
Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 306 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
ISBN: 978-0-521-03965-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop an account of what an individual substance is in terms of independence from other beings. In the process many other important ontological categories are explored: property, event, space, time. The authors show why alternative theories of substance fail, and go on to defend the intelligibility (though not the existence) of interacting spiritual and material substances.
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Substance and other categories; 2. Historically prominent accounts of substance; 3. Collectionist theories of substance; 4. The independence criterion of substance; 5. Souls and bodies; Appendix 1: the concrete-abstract distinction; Appendix 2: Continuous space and time and their parts: a defense of an Aristotelian account; Index.
