The Trope Bundle Theory of Substance: Change, Individuation and Individual Essence

Márta Ujvári

Published by De Gruyter 2012

The Trope Bundle Theory of Substance

Change, Individuation and Individual Essence

Márta Ujvári

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110320664

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About this book

This book supports a version of the trope-bundle view of individual substances matching also with a coherent account of change, individuation and individual essences. In particular, it is argued that qualitative individuation and qualitative individual essences can be tackled within the frames of a trope account. The adoption of a trope BT together with the individuation of tropes via the bearer substance might create the feeling of circularity since tropes and substances seem mutually to individuate each other. The novel solution to the problem developed here consists in showing that the individuation of concrete individual substances is independent, in crucial respects, from the fact that they are construed as bundles of tropes. Apart from metaphysician colleagues, the book is recommended for advanced students in analytic metaphysics.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
I. The Identity of Substances: Bare Substrata or Qualitative Bundles? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
II. The Role of Tropes in Ontology: Accidents, Events, Particularism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
III. The Individuation of Tropes and Substances in BT. The Main Criticisms of the Trope Theory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
V. Two-tier Bundle Theories of Substance. Objections to BT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
V. The Bundling Relation. Simons’ Two-tier Bundle Theory of Substance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
VI. Change, Temporal Parts and BT. Cambridge Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
VII. Individual Essences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 251
Keywords: Ontologie; Philosophie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110320664

Hardcover

Published: December 18, 2012
ISBN: 9783110320480