Metaphysics and scientific realism : essays in honour of David Malet Armstrong /
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| Imprint: | Boston ; Berlin : Walter de Gruyter Inc., [2016] |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eide : foundations of ontology ; volume 9 Eide ; v. 9. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11755401 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction ; Mirage Realism Revisited ; 1 Introduction ; 2 The one over many problem ; 3 Devitt's charge of mirage realism ; 4 The one over many problem and Armstrong's world of states of affairs ; 5 Instantiation as partial identity.
- 6 The one over many problem and the Platonic view of universals Ostrich Nominalism or Ostrich Platonism? ; 1 What is it like to be an ostrich? ; 2 The argument from gross facts ; 3 The harlot argument ; 4 The truthmaker argument ; 5 Sketch for a Platonic theory of predication.
- 6 Concluding remarks In Defense of Transcendent Universals ; 1 Armstrong's ontological method ; 2 Armstrong's primary critique of transcendent realism ; 3 A reply to the primary critique ; 4 "How can distinct particulars have the same properties?" ; 5 Arguments, not explanations.
- Armstrong and Tropes 1 Universals and tropes ; 2 Tropes and substances ; 3 Armstrong's objections to trope nominalism ; 4 Answers to the objections ; 5 Some advantages of trope nominalism ; 6 Remaining problems for the trope nominalist ; 7 Conclusion ; Tropes: For and Against.
- 1 Introduction 2 Tropes and the one over many ; 3 Armstrong on what is the 'best' version of the trope view ; 4 Armstrong on why there are no tropes ; 5 Piling, swapping, and 'Hochberg's argument' ; 6 Laws of nature and resemblance ; Facts: An Essay in Aporetics ; 1 Introduction.