Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges, and Prospects
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By Andreas Hüttemann, Gerhard Schurz
August 26, 2025
Inductive Metaphysics (IM) is a comparatively new branch of metaphysics that justifies metaphysical principles by inductive or abductive inferences from empirical evidence, rather than by purely logico-conceptual considerations. This is the first volume to provide a representative picture of ...
About Haecceity: An Essay in Ontology
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By Matthew Davidson
July 30, 2025
This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity—that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things. The book begins by exploring different conceptions of haecceity throughout history. The discussion of various figures across history is ...
The Metaphysically Dynamic Universe: How Motion is the Essence of Time and Physical Reality
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By Stephen Barker
June 29, 2025
This book develops a new metaphysical framework in which time is motion through a higher dimension. In other words, time literally flows. It breaks through the long debate about time flow and temporal experience in metaphysics by offering an entirely new approach that reconciles psychological time ...
A Dynamic Theory of Hylomorphism: Form as Activity
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By Jeremy W. Skrzypek
June 19, 2025
This book introduces a novel hylomorphic theory of material objects, according to which material objects are understood as comprised or composed of both matter and activity, where activity plays the role of form. This theory, “hyloenergeism,” captures the dynamic nature of many of the objects of ...
Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers
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By Christopher J. Austin, Anna Marmodoro, Andrea Roselli
December 18, 2024
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts–whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology. Powers are often assumed to be atomic, and yet...
The Ontology of Relations
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By Michele Paolini Paoletti
November 18, 2024
This book provides an exhaustive overview of the ontology of relations. Moreover, it offers a detailed defense of the existence of irreducible relations in the universe and shows that entities such as powers should be better thought of as relations. At first, the author discusses many classical ...
Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities
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By Gabriele De Anna, Manuele Dozzi
October 08, 2024
The chapters in this volume clarify the notion of political identity by focusing on the metaphysics of polities. By analysing the notion of political identity, they provide the conceptual resources for a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical debates on populism, the crisis of ...
The Ontology of Music Groups: Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative Groups
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By Ludger Jansen, Thorben Petersen
August 28, 2024
This volume examines the ontology of music groups. It connects two fascinating areas of philosophical research: the ontology of social groups and the philosophy of music. Interest in questions about the nature of music groups is growing. Since people are widely familiar with music groups, the topic...
Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity
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By Tristan Grøtvedt Haze
August 26, 2024
This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of truths in part by reflecting on the meanings of...
The Metaphysics of Powerful Qualities: Powerful Categoricalism and the Laws of Nature
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By Vassilis Livanios
August 15, 2024
This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms. The author also develops and defends his own version of the powerful qualities view, which he calls powerful categoricalism. In recent years, the powerful qualities view about the nature of ...
Concrete Particulars: A Metaphysics of Spatiotemporal Entities
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By Daniel Giberman
June 07, 2024
This book presents a novel metaphysics of concrete entities. The author uses the theory developed to address three major topics in the metaphysics of concreta: fundamentality, persistence over time, and phenomenal consciousness. The book provides a new theory of what “bundles” particular property ...
E.J. Lowe and Ontology
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By Miroslaw Szatkowski
May 27, 2024
This volume collects fifteen original essays on E. J. Lowe’s work on metaphysics and ontology. The essays connect Lowe’s insights with contemporary issues in metaphysics. E. J. Lowe (1950–2014) was one of the most influential analytical philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. ...