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Cover; Metaphysics; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What is metaphysics about?; 1. Substance; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Substance versus properties; 1.3 Bearers of properties or bundles of tropes?; 1.4 Aristotle's hylomorphism; 1.5 How do substances persist?; 1.6 Conclusions; 2. Properties and Relations; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Do properties exist? Realism versus nominalism; 2.3 Reductionism and fundamentality; 2.4 Dispositional properties and categorical properties; 2.5 Are powers genuine and irreducible properties?; 2.6 An ontology of pure powers? |
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2.7 Relations versus monadic properties; 2.8 Conclusions; 3. Modality and Essence; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Aristotle's essentialism; 3.3 Against essentialism and non-logical necessity: Quine's critique of de re necessity; 3.4 The revival of de re necessity and essentialism; 3.4.1 Possible worlds; 3.4.2 A posteriori necessity; 3.5 Powers and modality; 3.6 Conclusions; 4. Causality; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Some neo-Humean developments; 4.3 Aristotle's theory of causation; 4.4 Are there active and passive powers involved in causation?; 4.5 Mental causation; 4.6 Conclusions |
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5. Determinism and Free Will; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A brief history of compatibilism and incompatibilism; 5.3 The consequence argument and the fortunes of incompatibilism; 5.4 Moral responsibility and free will; 5.5 Free will and the "new dispositionalism"; 5.6 Conclusions; Conclusion: A never-ending task; Bibliography; Index |
| Abstract |
This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; determinism and free will. Anna Marmodoro and Erasmus Mayr take a neo-Aristotelian approach both in the selection and presentation of the topics. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 25, 2019). |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780190941635 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0190941634 (electronic bk.) |
