D. M. Armstrong

Nominalism and Realism

Volume 1: Universals and Scientific Realism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780521280334
• ISBN-10: 0521280338
• Artikelnr.: 26332346

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Predicates
Part II. Theories of Universals: 2. Predicate nominalism
3. Concept nominalism
4. Class nominalism
5. Resemblance nominalism
6. Arguments for realism
7. Transcendent universals
8. Properties and relations as particulars
Part III. Particulars: 9. Are particulars reducible to universals?
10. The Lockean account of particulars
11. Particulars and universals
12. A world-hypothesis.