The Metaphysics Of Relations
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The Metaphysics Of Relations
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Author : Anna Marmodoro
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-07
The Metaphysics Of Relations written by Anna Marmodoro and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-07 with Philosophy categories.
This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their subjects jointly instantiating polyadic properties, or can we explain their truths solely in terms of monadic, non-relational properties of the relata? According to a tradition dating back to Plato and Aristotle, and continued by medieval philosophers, polyadic properties are metaphysically dubious. In non-symmetric relations such as the amatory relation, a property would have to inhere in two things at once-lover and beloved-but characterise each differently, and this puzzled the ancients. More recent work on non-symmetric relations highlights difficulties with their directionality. Such problems offer clear motivation for attempting to reduce relations to monadic properties. By contrast, ontic structural realists hold that the nature of physical reality is exhausted by the relational structure expressed in the equations of fundamental physics. On this view, there must be some irreducible relations, for its fundamental ontology is purely relational. The Metaphysics of Relations draws together the work of a team of leading metaphysicians, to address topics as diverse as ancient and medieval reasons for scepticism about polyadic properties; recent attempts to reduce causal and spatiotemporal relations; recent work on the directionality of relational properties; powers ontologies and their associated problems; whether the most promising interpretations of quantum mechanics posit a fundamentally relational world; and whether the very idea of such a world is coherent. From those who question whether there are relational properties at all, to those who hold they are a fundamental part of reality, this book covers a broad spectrum of positions on the nature and ontological status of relations, from antiquity to the present day.
Relations
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Author : John Heil
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-11
Relations written by John Heil and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-11 with Philosophy categories.
Historically, philosophical discussions of relations have featured chiefly as afterthoughts, loose ends to be addressed only after coming to terms with more important and pressing metaphysical issues. F. H. Bradley stands out as an exception. Understanding Bradley's views on relations and their significance today requires an appreciation of the alternatives, which in turn requires an understanding of how relations have traditionally been classified and how philosophers have struggled to capture their nature and their ontological standing. Positions on these topics range from the rejection of relations altogether, to their being awarded the status as grounds for everything else, to various intermediary positions along this spectrum. Love them, hate them, or merely tolerate them, no philosopher engaged in ontologically serious metaphysics can afford to ignore relations.
On The Philosophy Of The Ved Nta In Its Relations To The Occidental Metaphysics
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Author : Paul Deussen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
On The Philosophy Of The Ved Nta In Its Relations To The Occidental Metaphysics written by Paul Deussen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Metaphysics categories.
Relations
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Author : Damiano Migliorini
language : en
Publisher: Philosophy
Release Date : 2018-03-31
Relations written by Damiano Migliorini and has been published by Philosophy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-31 with categories.
The present edited collection is a fresh contribution to the international debate. Leading scholars from all over the world address the topic from different viewpoints: history of philosophy, ontology, philosophy of religion, and history of religious doctrines.
Studies In Early Greek Philosophy
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Author : Jaap Mansfeld
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-09-11
Studies In Early Greek Philosophy written by Jaap Mansfeld and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-11 with Philosophy categories.
The collection of nineteen articles in Jaap Mansfeld’s Studies in Early Greek Philosophy span the period from Anaximander to Socrates. Solutions to problems of interpretation are offered through a scrutiny of the sources, and also of the traditions of presentation and reception found in antiquity. Excursions in the history of scholarship help to diagnose discussions of which the primum movens may have been forgotten. General questions are treated, for instance the phenomenon of detheologization in doxographical texts, while problems relating to individual philosophers are also discussed. For example, the history of Anaximander’s cosmos, the status of Parmenides’ human world, and the reliability of what we know about the soul of Anaximenes, and of what Philoponus tells us about the behaviour of Democritus’ atoms.
The Metaphysics Of Love
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Author : Stella Sandford
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2001-11-01
The Metaphysics Of Love written by Stella Sandford and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle. Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.
Plato On The Metaphysical Foundation Of Meaning And Truth
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Author : Blake E. Hestir
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-21
Plato On The Metaphysical Foundation Of Meaning And Truth written by Blake E. Hestir and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Philosophy categories.
Blake E. Hestir's examination of Plato's conception of truth challenges a long tradition of interpretation in ancient scholarship.
Kant On The Sources Of Metaphysics
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Author : Marcus Willaschek
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-29
Kant On The Sources Of Metaphysics written by Marcus Willaschek and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-29 with Philosophy categories.
Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.
The Metaphysics Of Aristotle
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Author : Aristotle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
The Metaphysics Of Aristotle written by Aristotle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Metaphysics categories.
The Metaphysics Of Gottlob Frege
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Author : E.H.W Kluge
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
The Metaphysics Of Gottlob Frege written by E.H.W Kluge and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with Philosophy categories.
Die Sprachen sind nicht nach dem logischen Lineal gemacht. (Briefwechsel, p. 102) If success in solving problems is the hallmark of philosophical great ness, then Frege was not a great philosopher. But by that same token, very few if any other figure in the history of philosophy will qualify. On the other hand, if the hallmark of philosophical great ness is the opening up of new conceptual territory and the raising of hitherto unsuspected crucial questions, the shifting of philosophical perspectiv~ and the determination of subsequent lines of enquiry, then Frege must rank among the greatest philosophers of all times. He was the first to develop a completely formalized language and a logical system sufficiently powerful to generate arithmetic; he opened up the fields of philosophy of logic and arithmetic; his theses on sense reference and definition were seminal to almost all subse quent work done in the philosophy oflanguage; and his ontological speculations constituted the foundation of one of the most profound metaphysics ever developed: that of Ludwig Wittgenstein in the Tractatus.