Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science

Metaphysics has shifted ground, moving away from necessity and possibility as the lens through which we look at things. Ted Sider shapes the agenda for the subject by exploring how this shift transforms the project of understanding the objects, properties, and quantities of the universe, and the relations between them, in terms of structures.

List of contents

• 1: Postmodal metaphysics and structuralism


• 2: Nomic essentialism


• 3: Individuals


• 4: Quantities


• 5: Equivalence


• 6: The fundamentalist vision

About the author

Theodore Sider is Andrew W. Mellon Chair in Philosophy and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. He completed his PhD at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and has previously held positions at New York University, the University of Rochester, Syracuse University, and Rutgers University. He is the author of Writing the Book of the World (Oxford 2011), Logic for Philosophy (Oxford 2010), Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics (Oxford 2005, with Earl Conee), and Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Oxford 2001).

Summary

Metaphysics has shifted ground, moving away from necessity and possibility as the lens through which we look at things. Ted Sider shapes the agenda for the subject by exploring how this shift transforms the project of understanding the objects, properties, and quantities of the universe, and the relations between them, in terms of structures.

Additional text

an important contribution to discussions of cutting edge topics lying at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophies of mathematics and science

Product details

• Authors: Theodore Sider, Theodore (Rutgers University) Sider, Sider Theodore
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192864765
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286476-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology