The metaphysics of the material world : Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza

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Cover The Metaphysics of  the Material World Copyright Contents List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue 1. Bayle’s Narrative 1.1. Bayle’s Aristotelian Critique of Spinoza 1.2. Aristotle’s Metaphysics of the Material World Part I 2. Metaphysics and Material Modes 2.1. Analogical Metaphysics 2.2. Theory of Distinctions I 2.3. The Metaphysics of Material Modes 3. Quantity, Integral Parts, and Boundaries 3.1. Quantity and Impenetrability I 3.2. Mereology and Integral Parts 3.3. Boundaries as Indivisible Constituents Part II 4. Metaphysical Themes from Suárez 4.1. Theory of Distinctions II 4.2. Quantity and Impenetrability II 4.3. The Metaphysics of Surfaces 5. Material Pluralism and Ordinary Bodies 5.1. The Synopsis and Bodies-​Taken-​in-​General 5.2. Incorruptibility and the Vacuum 5.3. Ordinary Bodies, Human and Otherwise Part III 6. Metaphysical Themes from Descartes 6.1. The Nature of Substance/​Attributes 6.2. The Nature of Modes 6.3. From Extension to Motion-​and-​Rest 7. Material Monism and Bodily Parts 7.1. Modal Parts and Divisible Quantity 7.2. The Mereology of the Infinite Individual 7.3. Parts, Modes, and Material Monism Epilogue Works Cited Index