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The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities Powerful Categoricalism and the Laws of Nature

The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities: Powerful Categoricalism and the Laws of Nature

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By Vassilis Livanios
August 30, 2024

This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms. The author also develops and defends his own version of the powerful qualities view, which he calls powerful categoricalism. In recent years, the powerful qualities view about the nature of ...

The Ontology of Music Groups Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative Groups

The Ontology of Music Groups: Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative Groups

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Edited By Ludger Jansen, Thorben Petersen
August 09, 2024

This volume examines the ontology of music groups. It connects two fascinating areas of philosophical research: the ontology of social groups and the philosophy of music. Interest in questions about the nature of music groups is growing. Since people are widely familiar with music groups, the topic...

Concrete Particulars A Metaphysics of Spatiotemporal Entities

Concrete Particulars: A Metaphysics of Spatiotemporal Entities

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By Daniel Giberman
June 07, 2024

This book presents a novel metaphysics of concrete entities. The author uses the theory developed to address three major topics in the metaphysics of concreta: fundamentality, persistence over time, and phenomenal consciousness. The book provides a new theory of what “bundles” particular property ...

E.J. Lowe and Ontology

E.J. Lowe and Ontology

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Edited By Miroslaw Szatkowski
May 27, 2024

This volume collects fifteen original essays on E. J. Lowe’s work on metaphysics and ontology. The essays connect Lowe’s insights with contemporary issues in metaphysics. E. J. Lowe (1950–2014) was one of the most influential analytical philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. ...

About Haecceity An Essay in Ontology

About Haecceity: An Essay in Ontology

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By Matthew Davidson
March 05, 2024

This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity—that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things. The book begins by exploring different conceptions of haecceity throughout history. The discussion of various figures across history is ...

A Case for Necessitarianism

A Case for Necessitarianism

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By Amy Karofsky
January 29, 2024

This book is the first detailed and focused defense of necessitarianism. The author’s original account of necessitarianism encourages a reexamination of commonly held metaphysical positions as well as important issues in other, related areas of philosophy. Necessitarianism is the view that ...

A Map of Selves Beyond Philosophy of Mind

A Map of Selves: Beyond Philosophy of Mind

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By N.M.L. Nathan
January 29, 2024

A Map of Selves defines a concept of selfhood, radically different from the Cartesian, neo-Humean, materialist and animalist concepts which now dominate analytical philosophy of mind. A self, as this book defines it, is an enduring substance with a quality which is its constant possession, which it...

Relational Passage of Time

Relational Passage of Time

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By Matias Slavov
January 29, 2024

This book defends a relational theory of the passage of time. The realist view of passage developed in this book differs from the robust, substantivalist position. According to relationism, passage is nothing over and above the succession of events, one thing coming after another. Causally related ...

Determinism, Death, and Meaning

Determinism, Death, and Meaning

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By Stephen Maitzen
September 25, 2023

This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such things as death, regret, grief, and the meaning of life. The book argues that rationalism is the right attitude to take toward reality. It then shows that ...

Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature

Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature

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Edited By William M.R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, James Orr
September 25, 2023

This book explores the relationship between a scientifically updated Aristotelian philosophy of nature and a scientifically engaged theology of nature. It features original contributions by some of the best scholars engaging with Aristotelianism in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of science, ...

Powers, Parts and Wholes Essays on the Mereology of Powers

Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers

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Edited By Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, Andrea Roselli
August 25, 2023

This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts–whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology. Powers are often assumed to be atomic, and yet...

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation

Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation

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Edited By Ludger Jansen, Petter Sandstad
May 31, 2023

This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of formal causation and demonstrate its relevance for contemporary issues, such as causation, explanation...

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