Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Michael Della Rocca's bookThe Parmenidean Ascent rests onperhaps we can even say is 'grounded in'a form of Bradleyan regress argument against relations, which is the driving engine for his arguments against any form of distinction. 1 These arguments are directed against different fundamental concepts of philosophy, such as substance, action, knowledge, and meaning; but at heart it is one argument against relations that Della Rocca uses to put all these core concepts into doubt.He presents it most fully in the third chapter of his book which aims to show that the concept of substance (whether in its Aristotelian, Cartesian, Leibnizian or its Lockean variation) is not intelligible.For our purposes, we can distinguish 2 two steps in his argument:
Source: European Journal of Philosophy
DOI: 10.1111/ejop.13056
Author: Barbara M. Sattler
Institution: Ruhr University Bochum
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,240
OpenAlex ID: W4408543707