Stuff, Quality, Structure - The Whole Go

Galen Strawson argues for a comprehensive account of metaphysical categories, in defence of categorial monism, the view that there's only one fundamental metaphysical category. Stuff, Quality, Structure also provides a treatment of the notion of structure, arguing that structure cannot be fundamental.

List of contents

• 1: Troubles with Words


• 2: Identity Metaphysics: Setup


• 3: Real Materialism


• 4: A Twelve-Word Metaphysics


• 5: The FirstFusion


• 6: The Second Fusion/Fusing the Fusions


• 7: Stuff and Structure

About the author

Galen Strawson holds the President's Chair of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Freedom and Belief (OUP, 1986, 2nd ed. 2010); The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume (OUP, 1989, 2nd ed. 2014); Mental Reality (1994, 2nd ed. 2009), Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (OUP, 2009, revised ed. 2011); Locke on Personal Identity: Consciousness and Concernment (2011, 2nd ed. 2014); The Evident Connexion: Hume on Personal Identity (OUP, 2011, 2nd ed. 2014); and The Subject of Experience (OUP, 2017).

Summary

Galen Strawson argues for a comprehensive account of metaphysical categories, in defence of categorial monism, the view that there's only one fundamental metaphysical category. Stuff, Quality, Structure also provides a treatment of the notion of structure, arguing that structure cannot be fundamental.

Product details

• Authors: Galen Strawson, Galen (University of Texas At Austin) Strawson, Strawson Galen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2024
• EAN: 9780198903659
• ISBN: 978-0-19-890365-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge