ENGLISH

Substance among Other Categories

By Gary S. Rosenkrantz , Joshua Hoffman

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521039657, 051152742X, 0521461014, 9780511527425, 9780521039659, 9780521461016
LCC
BD331 .H57 1994
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5269776 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
212\208
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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