Tropes, Universals and the Philosophy of Mind - Gozzano, Simone / Orilia, Francesco (eds.)
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The ontological debate on the nature of properties is alive as ever. Mainly, they are viewed either as universals or tropes (abstract particulars), an alternative with an immediate impact on what events are taken to be. Although much inquiry in philosophy of mind is done without a full awareness of it, some recent works suggest that the choice may have far-reaching consequences on central topics of this discipline, e.g., token physicalism, multiple realizability, mental causation, perception, introspection, self-awareness. This book explores the extent to which this is true with novel…mehr

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The ontological debate on the nature of properties is alive as ever. Mainly, they are viewed either as universals or tropes (abstract particulars), an alternative with an immediate impact on what events are taken to be. Although much inquiry in philosophy of mind is done without a full awareness of it, some recent works suggest that the choice may have far-reaching consequences on central topics of this discipline, e.g., token physicalism, multiple realizability, mental causation, perception, introspection, self-awareness. This book explores the extent to which this is true with novel contributions by philosophers who have played a major role in bringing to the fore this interplay of foundational metaphysics and philosophical psychology and by other experts in these fields.
Autorenporträt
Simone Gozzano is full professor at the university of L'Aquila. His main interests are in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and the cognitive sciences. He is the author of two books in Italian on Material Thoughts and Intentionality and Content and Behaviour, respectively, and of a number of papers in international and Italian journals.

Francesco Orilia is professor of philosophy of language and logic in the University of Macerata, Italy. He has co-edited Thought, Language and Ontology – Essays in memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1998) and is the author of Predication, Analysis and Reference (CLUEB, Bologna, 1999) and La Référence singulière et l’autoréférence (eum, Macerata, 2006, http://archiviodigitale.unimc.it/). He has also published many papers in international journals such as Journal of Symbolic Logic, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Synthese.