J E Wolff

The Metaphysics of Quantities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What are physical quantities, and in particular, what makes them quantitative? This book presents an original answer to this question through the novel position of substantival structuralism, arguing that quantitativeness is an irreducible feature of attributes, and quantitative attributes are best understood as substantival structured spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198837084
• ISBN-10: 0198837089
• Artikelnr.: 58477986

Autorenporträt

Jo E. Wolff is Senior Lecturer in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Wolff earned a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University and held appointments at the University of Hong Kong and King's College London before joining the department at Edinburgh in 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Quantities as Determinables
3: Quantities as Numerical Attributes
4: Quantitative Attributes or Measurable Concepts
5: The Representational Theory of Measurement
6: Representationalism as a Basis for Metaphysics
7: Ontologies for Quantities
8: Questions of Priority: Relations or Relata?
9: Fundamental Structure for Quantities
10: A Structuralist View of Quantities