Substance Its Nature and Existence

Name: Substance Its Nature and Existence
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ISBN: 9780415140324

ISBN-10: 0415140323

ISBN-13: 9780415140324

Edition: 1996

Authors: Joshua Hoffman, Gary Rosenkrantz

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Substance: Its Nature and Existenceinvestigates the very nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. It provides an accessible introduction to the history and contemporary debates of this important and often complex issue. Starting with a critical survey of the main historical attempts by Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume to provide an analysis of substance, the authors present the view that a substance must satisfy anindependence conditionwhich could not be satisfied by an insubstantial entity. Throughout the book, the authors also consider problems for the notion of substance raised by the unity of the parts of organisms…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/12/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction



The Concept of Substance in History



An Independence theory of Substance



On the Unity of the Parts of Mereological Compounds



On the Unity of the Parts of Organisms



What Kinds of Physical Substances Are There?


Appendix: Organisms and Natural Kinds