"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 withou…
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…
"What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, e…
"What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, e…
"What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, e…
"What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, e…
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 defe…
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 defe…
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 defend…
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 defe…
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 defe…
Presents a defense of tropes--properties and relations understood as particulars--and of trope bundle theory as the best accounts of properites and objects. Advocates a specific brand of trope nominalism, Natural Class Trope Nominalism, which rejects the existence of universals,…
This book articulates and defends Fregean realism, a theory of properties based on Frege's insight that properties are not objects, but rather the satisfaction conditions of predicates. Robert Trueman argues that this approach is the key not only to dissolving a host of longstan…