Verity Harte

Plato on Parts and Wholes

The Metaphysics of Structure

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Produktbeschreibung

What is the relation between a whole and its parts? The metaphysics of structure and composition is much discussed in modern philosophy; now Verity Harte provides the first sustained examination of Plato's rich but neglected discussion of the topic, and shows how it can illuminate current debates. This book is an invaluable resource both for scholars of Plato and for modern metaphysicians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780199278442
• ISBN-10: 019927844X
• Artikelnr.: 23829989

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. The Problem of Composition
1.1: Is a Whole (just) the Sum of its Parts?
1.2: Mereology or Magic?
1.3: Restrictions upon Composition?
1.4: Ontological Innocence
1.5: Composition and the Problem of the One and the Many
1.6: Theaetetus 203-206
2. Composition as Identity in the Parmenides and Sophist
2.1: Socrates' Puzzle: The Conversation with Zeno
2.2: Two Kinds of 'Part' in the Dilemma of Participation (131a-c)
2.3: Atomic Ones and Infinite Collections: The First and Second Deductions
2.4: Composition: Identity or Distinctness?
2.5: Eleaticism and Ontological Innocence
3. A New Model of Composition
3.1: Composition: A Sui Generis
3.2: Unity and Structure
3.3: Bare Pluralities
3.4: Restrictions on Composition
4. Composition and Structure
4.1: Two Ways of Thinking about Structure
4.2: The Sophist: A First Platonic Example of Structure
4.3: The Philebus: Structure and Content
4.4: The Timaeus: Structures within Structures
5. Plato's Metaphysics of Structure
5.1: The Platonic Context
5.2: Plato's Model of Composition
General Index
Index of Names
Index Locorum