The metaphysics of relations 1st Edition Marmodoro 0191086932 9780191086939

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• ISBN 10: 0191086932
• ISBN 13: 9780191086939
• Author: Marmodoro

This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-‘Abelard loves Eloise’, ‘Simmias is taller than Socrates’, ‘smoking causes cancer’, and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their subjects jointly instantiating polyadic properties, or can we explain their truths solely in terms of monadic, non-relational properties of the relata? According to a tradition dating back to Plato and Aristotle, and continued by medieval philosophers, polyadic properties are metaphysically dubious.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations

2. Relations as Plural Predications in Plato

3. Aristotelian vs Contemporary Perspectives on Relations

4. Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents?

5. Positionalism Revisited

6. There Are (Probably) No Relations

7. External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency

8. Causal Relations

9. Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation?

10. What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could Not Be

11. The Foundations of Structuralism and the Metaphysics of Relations

12. Relations All the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism

13. The Reality of Relations: The Case from Quantum Physics

14. Rovelli’s Relational Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Monism, and Quantum Becoming

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