The Metaphysics of Relations
Marmodoro, Anna
The Metaphysics of Relations - Oxford Oxford University Press 2016 - 282p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction : The Metaphysics of Relations ..1 Relations as plural Predications in Plato .....19 Aristotelian vs contemporary perspectives on Relations .......36 Why do medieval philosophers reject polyadic accidents?...........55 Positionalism revisited..........80 There are no relations ..............100 External Relations, causal coincidence, and Contingency.........113 Causal Relations.....127 Is powerful causation an internal relation?............138 What a structuralist theory of Properties could not be .............157 The foundations of Structuralism and the metaphysics of Relations.......177 Relations all the way down? against ontic structural realism ..............198 The reality of Relations: The case from quantum physics .............218 Rovelli`s Relational QQuantum mechanics, anti-monism. and Quantum becoming ..........235
9780198735878 3911
N20 / M345
The Metaphysics of Relations - Oxford Oxford University Press 2016 - 282p
includes index and biblioraphy
Introduction : The Metaphysics of Relations ..1 Relations as plural Predications in Plato .....19 Aristotelian vs contemporary perspectives on Relations .......36 Why do medieval philosophers reject polyadic accidents?...........55 Positionalism revisited..........80 There are no relations ..............100 External Relations, causal coincidence, and Contingency.........113 Causal Relations.....127 Is powerful causation an internal relation?............138 What a structuralist theory of Properties could not be .............157 The foundations of Structuralism and the metaphysics of Relations.......177 Relations all the way down? against ontic structural realism ..............198 The reality of Relations: The case from quantum physics .............218 Rovelli`s Relational QQuantum mechanics, anti-monism. and Quantum becoming ..........235
9780198735878 3911
N20 / M345