II�Categorical Priority and Categorical Collapse

• Autores: L.A. Paul
• Localización: Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, ISSN-e 1467-8349, Vol. 87, Nº. 1, 2013, págs. 89-113
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I explore some of the ways that assumptions about the nature of substance shape metaphysical debates about the structure of Reality. Assumptions about the priority of substance play a role in an argument for monism, are embedded in certain pluralist metaphysical treatments of laws of nature, and are central to discussions of substantivalism and relationalism. I will then argue that we should reject such assumptions and collapse the categorical distinction between substance and property.