A01=James Porter Moreland
abstract reference
Abstract Singular Terms
analytic metaphysics
Armstrong's View
Armstrong’s View
Author_James Porter Moreland
bare
Bare Particulars
Basic Trope
Blue Trope
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Category=QDTJ
Category=QDTK
Category=QDTL
concrete
contemporary metaphysics debate
Copy View
Eidetic Intuition
En
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
exact
Exact Similarity
Exploded Object
Higher Order Universal
Infimae Species
infinite
Leibnizian Essences
Object Regress
ontology of properties
particulars
philosophical naturalism
predication theory
property individuation
red
Red Things
Red Tropes
regress
Relation Regress
similarity
Simple Entity
Supervenient Entities
things
Trope Nominalism
Truth Maker Principle
Uninstantiated Universals
Universal Redness
Vice Versa
vicious
Vicious Infinite Regress
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- ISBN 9781902683232
- Weight: 360g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence distinct from the particular things describable by those terms? And what must be their nature if they do? This book provides a careful and assured survey of the central issues of debate surrounding universals, in particular those issues that have been a crucial part of the emergence of contemporary analytic ontology. The book begins with a taxonomy of extreme nominalist, moderate nominalist, and realist positions on properties, and outlines the way each handles the phenomena of predication, resemblance, and abstract reference. The debate about properties and philosophical naturalism is also examined. Different forms of extreme nominalism, moderate nominalism, and minimalist realism are critiqued. Later chapters defend a traditional realist view of universals and examine the objections to realism from various infinite regresses, the difficulties in stating identity conditions for properties, and problems with realist accounts of knowledge of abstract objects. In addition, the debate between Platonists and Aristotelians is examined alongside a discussion of the relationship between properties and an adequate theory of existence. The book's final chapter explores the problem of individuating particulars. The book makes accessible a difficult topic without blunting the sophistication of argument required by a more advanced readership.
J. P. Moreland is Professor of Philosophy at Biola University, La Mirada, California.
