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Zusatztext This volume of thirteen commissioned chapters and an introduction provides state of the art contributions to both the philosophical discussion of relations and our understanding of the history of this discussion. It is a model of how historical scholarship and contemporary philosophy can complement each other. Part of the success of the approach here lies in its subtlety. The interconnections between the history and the current philosophy are not belabored: the contemporary work is not dragged down with discussion of precedents and the historical issues are developed on their own terms and without the imposition of anachronism. Thematic interconnections emerge organically, and the resulting whole is satisfying. Informationen zum Autor Anna Marmodoro is an Official Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She specializes in ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. She has published books and journal articles in both areas; and currently directs two major research projects: one on ancient and contemporary metaphysics of powers funded by the European Research Council, and one on the metaphysics of quantum entanglement, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation.David Yates holds a PhD from King's College London, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon. He specialises in metaphysics (in particular metaphysics of science) with active research interests in the philosophy of mind (in particular neuroscientific approaches to consciousness). He is currently working on a 5-year project investigating the ontological status of spacetime in quantum gravity, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). Klappentext Fifteen philosophers offer new essays exploring the metaphysics of relations from antiquity to the present day. From those who question whether there are relational properties at all, to those who hold they are a fundamental part of reality, the essays cover a wide range of views on the nature and ontological status of relations. Zusammenfassung Fifteen philosophers offer new essays exploring the metaphysics of relations from antiquity to the present day. From those who question whether there are relational properties at all, to those who hold they are a fundamental part of reality, the essays cover a wide range of views on the nature and ontological status of relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Anna Marmodoro and David Yates: Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations 2: Theodore Scaltsas: Relations as Plural Predications in Plato 3: Jeffrey E. Brower: Aristotelian vs. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations 4: Sydney Penner: Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents? 5: Maureen Donnelly: Positionalism Revisited 6: E. Jonathan Lowe: There Are (Probably) No Relations 7: Peter Simons: External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency 8: John Heil: Causal Relations 9: David Yates: Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? 10: Nora Berenstain: What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could Not Be 11: James Ladyman: The Foundations of Structuralism and the Metaphysics of Relations 12: Sebastián Briceño and Stephen Mumford: Relations All the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism 13: Michael Esfeld: The Reality of Relations: the Case From Quantum Physics 14: Mauro Dorato: Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Monism and Quantum Becoming Bibliography Index ...
