The metaphysics of relations

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