Anna Marmodoro is an Official Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She specializes in ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. She has published books and journal articles in both areas; and currently directs two major research projects: one on ancient and contemporary metaphysics of powers funded by the European Research Council, and one on the metaphysics of quantum entanglement, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation.David Yates holds a PhD from King's College London, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon. He specialises in metaphysics (in particular metaphysics of science) with active research interests in the philosophy of mind (in particular neuroscientific approaches to consciousness). He is currently working on a 5-year project investigating the ontological status of spacetime in quantum gravity, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Overall, The Metaphysics of Relations successfully shows how studies in the nature of relations and the history of the subject can provide important insights into the ongoing contemporary debates in the metaphysical foundations of mathematics and physics.

• 1. Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations ; 2. Relations as Plural Predications in Plato ; 3. Aristotelian vs. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations ; 4. Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents? ; 5. Positionalism Revisited ; 6. There Are (Probably) No Relations ; 7. External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency ; 8. Causal Relations ; 9. Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? ; 10. What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could Not Be ; 11. The Foundations of Structuralism and the Metaphysics of Relations ; 12. Relations All the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism ; 13. The Reality of Relations: the Case From Quantum Physics ; 14. Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Monism and Quantum Becoming ; Bibliography ; Index

Anna Marmodoro is an Official Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She specializes in ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. She has published books and journal articles in both areas; and currently directs two major research projects: one on ancient and contemporary metaphysics of powers funded by the European Research Council, and one on the metaphysics of quantum entanglement, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation.David Yates holds a PhD from King's College London, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon. He specialises in metaphysics (in particular metaphysics of science) with active research interests in the philosophy of mind (in particular neuroscientific approaches to consciousness). He is currently working on a 5-year project investigating the ontological status of spacetime in quantum gravity, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Overall, The Metaphysics of Relations successfully shows how studies in the nature of relations and the history of the subject can provide important insights into the ongoing contemporary debates in the metaphysical foundations of mathematics and physics.

• 1. Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations ; 2. Relations as Plural Predications in Plato ; 3. Aristotelian vs. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations ; 4. Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents? ; 5. Positionalism Revisited ; 6. There Are (Probably) No Relations ; 7. External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency ; 8. Causal Relations ; 9. Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? ; 10. What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could Not Be ; 11. The Foundations of Structuralism and the Metaphysics of Relations ; 12. Relations All the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism ; 13. The Reality of Relations: the Case From Quantum Physics ; 14. Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Monism and Quantum Becoming ; Bibliography ; Index

Anna Marmodoro is an Official Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She specializes in ancient philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. She has published books and journal articles in both areas; and currently directs two major research projects: one on ancient and contemporary metaphysics of powers funded by the European Research Council, and one on the metaphysics of quantum entanglement, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation.David Yates holds a PhD from King's College London, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon. He specialises in metaphysics (in particular metaphysics of science) with active research interests in the philosophy of mind (in particular neuroscientific approaches to consciousness). He is currently working on a 5-year project investigating the ontological status of spacetime in quantum gravity, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).

Overall, The Metaphysics of Relations successfully shows how studies in the nature of relations and the history of the subject can provide important insights into the ongoing contemporary debates in the metaphysical foundations of mathematics and physics.

• 1. Introduction: The Metaphysics of Relations ; 2. Relations as Plural Predications in Plato ; 3. Aristotelian vs. Contemporary Perspectives on Relations ; 4. Why Do Medieval Philosophers Reject Polyadic Accidents? ; 5. Positionalism Revisited ; 6. There Are (Probably) No Relations ; 7. External Relations, Causal Coincidence, and Contingency ; 8. Causal Relations ; 9. Is Powerful Causation an Internal Relation? ; 10. What a Structuralist Theory of Properties Could Not Be ; 11. The Foundations of Structuralism and the Metaphysics of Relations ; 12. Relations All the Way Down? Against Ontic Structural Realism ; 13. The Reality of Relations: the Case From Quantum Physics ; 14. Rovelli's Relational Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Monism and Quantum Becoming ; Bibliography ; Index