Relations

by Heil, John

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Title Statements

Full title :Relations / John Heil, Washington University in St. Louis, Monash University, Durham University.

Summary

"Historically, philosophical discussions of relations have featured chiefly as afterthoughts, loose ends to be addressed only after coming to terms with more important and pressing metaphysical issues. F.H. Bradley stands out as an exception. Understanding Bradley's views on relations and their significance today requires an appreciation of the alternatives, which in turn requires an understanding of how relations have traditionally been classified and how philosophers have struggled to capture their nature and their ontological standing. Positions on these topics range from the rejection of relations altogether, to their being awarded the status as grounds for everything else, to various intermediary positions along this spectrum. Love them, hate them, or merely tolerate them, no philosopher engaged in ontologically serious metaphysics can afford to ignore relations"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:62 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108940610, 1108940617
oclc:on1272881523
LC Classification:B836
Dewey Decimal:111

1. Relations : gotta love 'em -- 2. Properties and relations -- 3. Internal and external relations -- 4. Metaphysical preliminaries -- 5. Truthmaking -- 6. Bradley's regress -- 7. Relations and non-relational truthmakers -- 8. Stocktake -- 9. Bradley redux -- 10. Relational ontology -- 11. Relations : can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.