Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar A Neo-Aristotelian Mereology

This book defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the nature and structure of material objects. Another aim of the book is to further develop the newly revived area concerning the question of fundamental mereology, that is the question of whether wholes are metaphysically prior to their parts or vice versa.

About the author

Ross D. Inman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA. He is a former Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, Center for Philosophy of Religion and Saint Louis University. He was awarded the 2014 Marc Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Religion. His research has appeared in Philosophical Studies, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysica, and Philosophia Christi.

Summary

This book defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the nature and structure of material objects. Another aim of the book is to further develop the newly revived area concerning the question of fundamental mereology, that is the question of whether wholes are metaphysically prior to their parts or vice versa.

Product details

• Authors: Ross D. Inman, Ross D Inman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 14.08.2020
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780367593599
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59359-9
• Pages: 304
• Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
• Subjects: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Ontology, PM, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Grounding, Essence, Duns Scotus, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, properties, Metaphysics, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy, causation, essentialism, fundamental ontology, quantum mechanics, laws, Modality, Substance, dependence, Mereology, modal metaphysics, Kit Fine, Material objects, Classical mereology, Vice Versa, priority, Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics, fundamentality, Mereological essentialism, Composite Substance, Pre-philosophical Beliefs, composite substances, Grounded Wholes, Tiling Constraint, Tibbles the Cat, posteriority, The Argument from Vagueness, priority microphysicalism, Fundamental Mereology, The Problem of the Many, Causal Profile, Proper Parts, Mereological Hierarchy, Fundamental Substances, Ross D. Inman, Composite Objects, Fundamental Entities, Mereological Structure, part-priority, Microphysical Parts, Causal Overdetermination, mereological junk, Substantial Priority, Mereological Simplicity, Mereological Wholes, Substance and Fundamentality, Fundamental Causal Properties, Metaphysically Prior, Fine Grained Notion, Fundamental Intermediates, Goliath and Lumpl, Mereological Metaphysics