Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers
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By Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, Andrea Roselli
December 18, 2024
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...
Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities
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By Gabriele De Anna, Manuele Dozzi
October 08, 2024
The chapters in this volume clarify the notion of political identity by focusing on the metaphysics of polities. By analysing the notion of political identity, they provide the conceptual resources for a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical debates on populism, the crisis of ...
Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity
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By Tristan Grøtvedt Haze
August 26, 2024
This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of truths in part by reflecting on the meanings of...
E.J. Lowe and Ontology
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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. ...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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, ...
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation
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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...
A Powerful Particulars View of Causation
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By R.D. Ingthorsson
January 09, 2023
This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science. Recently, there has been a dramatic revival of ...
Authority and the Metaphysics of Political Communities
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By Gabriele De Anna
August 29, 2022
This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can be faced with.In Part I, the author justifies the need for the notion of ...