Substance among other categories / Joshua Hoffman, Gary S. Rosenkrantz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Substance and other categories. I. Statement and defense of our project. II. Ontological categories. III. The category of Substance intuitively understood -- 2. Historically prominent accounts of substance. I. Two Aristotelean theories. II. Substratum and inherence theories. III. Independence theories of substance -- 3. Collectionist theories of substance. I. What is a collectionist theory of substance? II. Sets or collections of abstract entities. III. Collections of concrete entities -- 4. The independence criterion of substance. I. Problems for the independence criterion. II. A proposed first solution. III. The first test case: Properties. IV. Tropes. V. Places, times, and limits. VI. Events. VII. Privations. VIII. Collections. IX. Substance. X. A second solution and its defense. XI. Other categories -- 5. Souls and bodies. I. The nature of a soul. II. Is a soul wholly negative in nature? III. Do souls need a principle of individuation? IV. Do souls need a principle of separation? V. Does dualistic interaction violate the supervenience of causal properties upon noncausal properties? VI. The classical attack on dualistic interaction: A reply. VII. Do dualistic interactions violate the laws of nature? VIII. Do souls need a criterion of persistence? IX. Is spatiotemporal continuity a criterion of persistence for bodies? -- Appendix 1. The concrete-abstract distinction -- Appendix 2. Continuous space and time and their parts: A defense of an Aristotelean account.