Substance Among Other Categories

ISBN-13: 9780521039659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 212 str.

Gary S. Rosenkrantz; Joshua Hoffman

Opis

This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances (for example, material objects and persons) is at the core of our common-sense view of the world, yet many metaphysicians deny the very coherence of the concept of substance. The authors develop a novel account of what an individual substance is in terms of independence from other beings.