Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History Anna Marmodoro

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• ISBN 10: 0190941642
• ISBN 13: 9780190941642
• Author:  Anna Marmodoro

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. But Marmodoro and Mayr’s discussion is not narrowly partisan-it consistently presents opposing sides of the debate and addresses issues from different philosophical traditions, and encourages readers to draw their own conclusions about them.Metaphysics combines a state-of-the-art presentation of the issues that takes into account the most recent developments in the field, with extensive references to the history of philosophy. The book thus makes topics in contemporary analytical metaphysics easily accessible to readers who have no specific background in contemporary philosophy, but rather in the history of philosophy. At the same time, it will engage readers who do not have any historical background with some key developments within the history of the subject

Table contents:

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?

2.7 Relations versus monadic properties

2.8 Conclusions

3. Modality and Essence

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Aristotle’s essentialism

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