The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy

Herausgeber: Galluzzo, Gabriele; Loux, Michael J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781107100893
• ISBN-10: 1107100895
• Artikelnr.: 42583066

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Gabriele Galluzzo and Michael J. Loux
1. An exercise in constituent ontology Michael J. Loux
2. Against ontological structure Peter Van Inwagen
3. In defense of substantial universals E. J. Lowe
4. A kind farewell to Platonism: for an Aristotelian understanding of kinds and properties Gabriele Galluzzo
5. Universals in a world of particulars John Heil
6. Is trope theory a divided house? Robert K. Garcia
7. Tropes and the generality of laws Sophie Gibb
8. On the origins of order: non-symmetric or only symmetric relation? Fraser MacBride
9. States of affairs and the relation regress Anna-Sofia Maurin.