Substance

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Roles; 3. Criteria of Substancehood: Independence; 4. Criteria of Substancehood: Grounding and Explanation; 5. Further Criteria of Substancehood; 6. Arguments For and Against Substances; 7. Candidate Substances; References.

Summary

This Element focuses on contemporary work on substance, and in particular on contemporary substance ontologies, metaphysical systems in which substance is one of the fundamental categories and individual substances are among the basic building blocks of reality.

Product details

• Authors: Donnchadh O'Conaill, Donnchadh (Universite De Fribourg O''conaill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781108940740
• ISBN: 978-1-108-94074-0
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Metaphysics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge