
Substance
Donnchadh O'Conaill(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 3. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
82 pages
978-1-108-94074-0 (ISBN)
Description
Substance has long been one of the key categories in metaphysics. This Element focuses on contemporary work on substance, and in particular on contemporary substance ontologies, metaphysical systems in which substance is one of the fundamental categories and individual substances are among the basic building blocks of reality. The topics discussed include the different metaphysical roles which substances have been tasked with playing; different critieria of substancehood (accounts of what is it to be a substance); arguments for and against the existence of substances; and different accounts of which entities, if any, count as substances.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-94074-0 (9781108940740)
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. Roles; 3. Criteria of Substancehood: Independence; 4. Criteria of Substancehood: Grounding and Explanation; 5. Further Criteria of Substancehood; 6. Arguments For and Against Substances; 7. Candidate Substances; References.

