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Concrete Particulars: A Metaphysics of Spatiotemporal Entities book cover

1st Edition

Concrete Particulars A Metaphysics of Spatiotemporal Entities

By Daniel Giberman Copyright 2024
248 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book presents a novel metaphysics of concrete entities. The author uses the theory developed to address three major topics in the metaphysics of concreta: fundamentality, persistence over time, and phenomenal consciousness. The book provides a new theory of what “bundles” particular property instances, or tropes, into material property bearers. The theory is based on two new ideas. The... Read more

1. Concrete Particulars and Markedness

2. The (Meta-)Philosophy of (Meta-)Physics: Some Sociological and Philosophical Observations

3A. A Default Case for Tropes I: Nominalisms

3B. A Default Case for Tropes II: Realisms

4. Ostrich Supertropestantivalism

5. The Need for a New Trope Bundle Theory

6. Markedness Bundle Theory

7. Priority Markedness

8. Markedness Plurdurantism

9. Markedness Panprotopsychism

Biography

Daniel Giberman is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on contemporary metaphysics and related issues in mind and language. His work has appeared in MIND, Philosophers’ Imprint, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Quarterly, and Philosophical Studies.

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