Object and Property

ISBN-13: 9780521550109 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 276 str.

Arda Denkel; Ernest Sosa; Jonathan Dancy

Opis

In this work, Professor Arda Denkel develops a unified ontology of objecthood, essences and causation. A principal tenet is that while the basic units of the physical world are substances, particular properties are the analytic ultimates of existence. Although properties must inhere in objects, individual things are nothing more than compresences of properties at particular positions. There exist no mysterious substrata. Principles explaining how properties are held together in compresences are basically the same as those that account for essences and for causal relations. There exist no objective universals. Denkel defends a thoroughgoing particularism and offers purely qualitative accounts of individuation, identity, essences and matter. Throughout, the main alternative positions are surveyed, and the relevant historical background is traced.

Recenzje

'This is an ambitious book. It offers an account of the nature of physical objects, an understanding of individual essences, a novel account of causation, and much more.' Mind

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Ultimacy and objecthood; 3. Individuation and objecthood; 4. Identity and individuality; 5. Change, matter and identity; 6. Properties, particularity and objecthood; 7. Essence and individuality; 8. Causation and particular properties; Works cited; Index.