Tropes: properties, objects, and mental causation
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.
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- Full title :Tropes : properties, objects, and mental causation / Douglas Ehring.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (250 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191619397, 0191619396, 1283269759, 9781283269759, 9780191729607, 0191729604
- oclc:ocn754997052
- LC Classification:BD460.T76
- Dewey Decimal:111
Table of Contents
pt. I. Tropes. Distinguishing particulars from universals -- Why believe in tropes? -- The individuation of tropes -- Bundle theory -- Tropes and mental causation -- pt. II. Natural class trope nominalism. Why natural class tropes? -- The classic objections to natural class trope nominalism -- The determination objections.
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