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Stuff, Quality, Structure

- The Whole Go
Af: Galen Strawson Engelsk Hardback

Stuff, Quality, Structure

- The Whole Go
Af: Galen Strawson Engelsk Hardback
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Stuff, Quality, Structure makes a case for identity metaphysics. It defends categorial monism, the view that there''s only one fundamental metaphysical category, which Strawson calls ''stuff''. It argues for the ultimate metaphysical identity of things that other views hold to be irreducibly distinct. It rejects separatism, which posits such irreducible metaphysical differences. The notions of object, process, property, state, and event seem to signal fundamental ontological differences, but these differences are superficial, according to identity metaphysics. The same goes for energy/force/laws of nature/causation/power: according to identity metaphysics, these are different ways of conceptualizing the same phenomenon, the best name for which is simply ''the nature of stuff''. More particularly: identity metaphysics opposes (1) object-property separatism and (2) stuff-law separatism. It then denies that (1) and (2) themselves are fundamentally different issues. Strawson also endorses ''stuff monism'', the view that there is only one kind of fundamental stuff, and favours ''thing monism'', the view that there is only one fundamental entity in reality. He then considers the place of the notion of structure in an account of concrete reality. Structure considered just as such is an abstract, wholly logico-mathematically characterizable phenomenon. If a structure is concretely realized it must be realized by something that isn''t itself just a matter of structure. It is arguable, nevertheless, that a thing''s structural nature may--and perhaps must--completely fix its non-structural nature in any world, or at least in any world to which the notion of structure is generally applicable.
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Stuff, Quality, Structure makes a case for identity metaphysics. It defends categorial monism, the view that there''s only one fundamental metaphysical category, which Strawson calls ''stuff''. It argues for the ultimate metaphysical identity of things that other views hold to be irreducibly distinct. It rejects separatism, which posits such irreducible metaphysical differences. The notions of object, process, property, state, and event seem to signal fundamental ontological differences, but these differences are superficial, according to identity metaphysics. The same goes for energy/force/laws of nature/causation/power: according to identity metaphysics, these are different ways of conceptualizing the same phenomenon, the best name for which is simply ''the nature of stuff''. More particularly: identity metaphysics opposes (1) object-property separatism and (2) stuff-law separatism. It then denies that (1) and (2) themselves are fundamentally different issues. Strawson also endorses ''stuff monism'', the view that there is only one kind of fundamental stuff, and favours ''thing monism'', the view that there is only one fundamental entity in reality. He then considers the place of the notion of structure in an account of concrete reality. Structure considered just as such is an abstract, wholly logico-mathematically characterizable phenomenon. If a structure is concretely realized it must be realized by something that isn''t itself just a matter of structure. It is arguable, nevertheless, that a thing''s structural nature may--and perhaps must--completely fix its non-structural nature in any world, or at least in any world to which the notion of structure is generally applicable.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 192
ISBN-13: 9780198903659
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0198903650
Udg. Dato: 26 jul 2024
Længde: 17mm
Bredde: 145mm
Højde: 224mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 26 jul 2024
Forfatter(e): Galen Strawson
Forfatter(e) Galen Strawson


Kategori Filosofi: metafysik og ontologi


ISBN-13 9780198903659


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 192


Udgave


Længde 17mm


Bredde 145mm


Højde 224mm


Udg. Dato 26 jul 2024


Oplagsdato 26 jul 2024


Forlag Oxford University Press