Douglas Ehring

Tropes & Things C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes¿properties and relations understood as particulars¿provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defends a new theory of trope nominalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199608539
• ISBN-10: 0199608539
• Artikelnr.: 37254957

Autorenporträt

Douglas Ehring was born in New York City. He went to undergraduate school in California, and received his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University. Ehring has taught at SMU in Dallas since 1981, and is currently the William Edward Easterwood Professor of Philosophy there.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Properties and Concrete Particulars
Part 1: Tropes
1: Distinguishing Particulars from Universals
2: Why Believe in Tropes
3: The Individuation of Tropes
4: Bundle Theory
5: Tropes and Mental Causation
Part 2: Natural Class Trope Nominalism
6: Why Natural Class Tropes
7: The Classic Objections to Natural Class Trope Nominalism
8: The Determination Objections
Bibliography
Index