Substance among Other Categories
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Substance among Other Categories

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Substance among Other Categories

About this book

This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop an account of what an individual substance is in terms of independence from other beings. In the process many other important ontological categories are explored: property, event, space, time. The authors show why alternative theories of substance fail, and go on to defend the intelligibility (though not the existence) of interacting spiritual and material substances.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1994
Print ISBN
9780521461016
eBook ISBN
9780511885167
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Logic in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Substance and other categories
  9. 2 Historically prominent accounts of substance
  10. 3 Collectionist theories of substance
  11. 4 The independence criterion of substance
  12. 5 Souls and bodies
  13. Appendix 1 The concrete-abstract distinction
  14. Appendix 2 Continuous space and time and their parts: A defense of an Aristotelean account
  15. Index

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