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The Atlas of Reality A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

14.11.2023

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John Wiley & Sons

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720

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1374 g

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Englisch

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978-1-119-11626-4

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

14.11.2023

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

720

Maße (L/B/H)

25,3/17,7/4 cm

Gewicht

1374 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-11626-4

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  • Produktbild: The Atlas of Reality
  • Acknowledgements xvii

    Part I Foundations

    1 Introduction 3

    1.1 A Brief History of Metaphysics 3

    1.2 Why Do Metaphysics? 5

    1.3 How to Use the Book 9

    2 Truthmakers 13

    2.1 Introduction 13

    2.2 Five Arguments for Classical Truthmaker Theory 19

    2.3 The Challenge of Deflationism 25

    2.4 Truthmaker Maximalism 30

    2.5 Alternatives to Truthmaker Maximalism 36

    2.6 Conclusion and Preview 44

    Notes 45

    3 Grounding, Ontological Dependence, and Fundamentality 47

    3.1 Is Grounding Real? 49

    3.2 Relation between Grounding and Truthmaking 55

    3.3 Relation between Grounding and Ontological Dependence 58

    3.4 Conceptual vs. Extra-Conceptual Grounding 62

    3.5 Alternatives to Grounding? 65

    3.6 Can Grounding Relations be Grounded? 69

    3.7 Connections between Grounding and Entailment 71

    3.8 How is Grounding Different from Causal Explanation? 72

    3.9 Conclusion: Grounding and Ontological Economy 72

    Notes 73

    Part II Dispositions

    4 Conditionals 77

    4.1 Counterfactual Conditionals: Semantics, Logic, and Metaphysics 78

    4.2 Hypotheticalism 84

    4.3 Anti-Hypotheticalism and Laws of Nature 86

    4.4 Strong Hypotheticalism: Counterfactual Accounts of Powers and Dispositions 90

    Notes 92

    5 Laws of Nature 94

    5.1 Strong Nomism: The Dretske-Armstrong-Tooley (DAT) Theory of Laws 94

    5.2 Neo-Humeism: Reduction of Conditionals, Laws, and Powers 99

    Notes 105

    6 Powers and Properties 106

    6.1 Advantages of Strong Powerism 106

    6.2 The Individuation of Properties 108

    6.3 Objections to Strong Powerism 118

    6.4 Conclusion 121

    Notes 121

    Part III Universals and Particulars

    7 Universals 125

    7.1 Introduction 125

    7.1.1 What properties must explain 126

    7.2 Realism 128

    7.3 Universals and the Problem of Intentionality 142

    7.4 Properties as the Ground of Causal Powers 145

    Notes 145

    8 Reductive Nominalism and Trope Theory 147

    8.1 Reductive Nominalism 147

    8.2 Trope Theory 165

    8.3 Conclusion 169

    Notes 169

    9 Particulars and the Problem of Individuation 171

    9.1 Introduction 171

    9.2 Facts 172

    9.3 Substances 175

    Notes 200

    10 Relations, Structures, and Quantities 201

    10.1 Accounts of Relational Facts 201

    10.2 Non-Symmetrical Relations and the Problem of Order 206

    10.3 Structural Universals and Constituent Ontology 215

    10.4 Determinables, Quantities, and Real Numbers 219

    10.5 Conclusion and Preview 225

    Notes 225

    Part IV The Nature of Reality

    11 Nihilism and Monism 229

    11.1 Nihilism and Aliquidism 229

    11.2 Monism 237

    Note 252

    12 The Non-Existent and the Vaguely Existing 253

    12.1 Does Everything Exist? 253

    12.2 Ontic Vagueness 271

    12.3 Conclusion 280

    13 Solipsism, Idealism, and the Problem of Perception 281

    13.1 Defining the Mental and the External 282

    13.2 Solipsism and Phenomenalism 284

    13.3 Theories of Perception 286

    13.4 Arguments against Phenomenalism 306

    13.5 Arguments against Solipsism 309

    13.6 Conclusion and Preview 312

    Notes 313

    Part V Modality

    14 Possibility, Necessity, and Actuality: Concretism 317

    14.1 Introduction 317

    14.2 Concretism:Worlds as Universes 321

    14.3 Problems for Concretism 327

    14.4 Conclusion 331

    Note 331

    15 Abstractionism:Worlds as Representations 332

    15.1 Magical Abstractionism 333

    15.2 Structural Abstractionism 341

    15.3 Aristotelian Theories of Possibility 348

    15.4 Conclusion 350

    Note 351