Macroscopic metaphysics : middle-sized objects and longish processes
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Macroscopic metaphysics : middle-sized objects and longish processes
（Synthese library, v. 390）
Springer, c2017
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Includes bibliographies (p. 211-217) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is about our ordinary concept of matter in the form of enduring continuants and the processes in which they are involved in the macroscopic realm. It emphasises what science rather than philosophical intuition tells us about the world, and chemistry rather than the physics that is more usually encountered in philosophical discussions. The central chapters dealing with the nature of matter pursue key steps in the historical development of scientific conceptions of chemical substance.
Like many contemporary discussions of material objects, it relies heavily on mereology. The classical principles are applied to the mereological structure of regions of space, intervals of time, processes and quantities of matter. Quantities of matter, which don't gain or lose parts over time, are distinguished from individuals, which are typically constituted of different quantities of matter at different times. The proper treatment of the temporal aspect of the features of material objects is a central issue in this book, which is addressed by investigating the conditions governing the application of predicates relating time and other entities. Of particular interest here are relations between quantities of matter and times expressing substance kind, phase and mixture. Modal aspects of these features are taken up in the final chapter.
目次
Ch. 1 Mereology
Ch. 2 Occupying Space
Ch. 3 Constitution
Ch. 4 Distributivity and Cumulativity
Ch. 5 The Ancients' Ideas of Substance
Ch. 6 The Nature of Matter
Ch. 7 The Relation of Macroscopic Description to Microstructure
Ch. 8 Longish Processes
Ch. 9 Modal Properties of Quantities
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