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.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Serious Essentialism
2. Grounding and Essence
3. Fundamental Mereology and the Priority of Substance
4. Against Part-Priority
5. Substantial Priority: Cats, Statues, and Lumps
6. Substantial Priority: Vagueness, the Many, and Overdetermination
7. Getting Personal: Substantial Priority and Personal Ontology
8. Counting the Cost
9. Substantial Priority and Empirical Inadequacy

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.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2020
• EAN: 9780367593599
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59359-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy