Vassilis Livanios

Science in Metaphysics

Exploring the Metaphysics of Properties and Laws

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the dispositional and categorical debates on the metaphysics of properties. It defends the view that all fundamental properties and relations are contingently categorical, while also examining alternative accounts of the nature of properties. Drawing upon both established research and the author's own investigation into the broader discipline of the metaphysics of science, this book provides a comprehensive study of the many views and opinions regarding a most debatable topic in contemporary metaphysics. Science in Metaphysics will be of interest to metaphysicians of science, analytic metaphysicians and philosophers of science and physics alike.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-41290-0
• 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9783319412900
• ISBN-10: 3319412906
• Artikelnr.: 45033701

Autorenporträt

Vassilis Livanios is a lecturer at the University of Cyprus, with interests including metaphysics and the philosophy of physical science. His work has appeared in several academic journals including Philosophical Studies, Metaphysica, Acta Analytica and Journal for General Philosophy of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Against Dispositional Monism.- 3. Against Identity Theory and Neutral Monism.- 4. In Defense of Categorical Monism.- 5. Categorical Monism and Qudditism.- 6. Further objections to Categorical Monsim.- 7. The Contingent Character of Categoricality and Disposionality.- 8. Do Nomic Relations Exist?.- 9. Metaphysical Features of Nomic Relations and Laws.- 10. Concluding Remarks.- References.- Index.