1st Edition
The Nature of Properties: Nominalism, Realism, and Trope Theory Analytical Metaphysics
Edited By Michael Tooley
Copyright 1999
390 Pages
by
Routledge
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Introduction, PROPERTIES, PREDICATES, CONCEPTS , AND PARTICULARS 1 Relations Between Predicates and Universals, Rejection of Disjunctive and Negative Universals, Properties and Predicates, Reply to Mellor, New Work for a Theory of Universals, On Properties, Universals, REALISM VERSUS NOMINALISM Arguments for Universals, The World of Universals, Nominalism, Empiricism and Universals -1, Statements About Universals, The Ante Rem Theory of Universals, Universals, Abstract Particulars and the Theory of Tropes, The Nature of Universals and Propositions, Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular? On the Elements of Being: I, On the Elements of Being: II, The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars, Thinking and the Structure of the World, Class and Predicate Nominalism, On What There Is, Ostrich Nominalism or Mirage Realism? Against Ostrich Nominalism: A Reply to Michael Devitt, Soft Impeachment Disowned, Extreme Nominalism: The Rejection of Classes and Properties, Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism, A World of Individuals, Acknowledgments, Abstract Particular. and the Theory of Tropes, The Nature of Universals and Proposition, Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular? On the Elements of Being: I, On the Elements of Being: II, The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars, Thinking and the Structure of the World, On What There Is, Ostrich Nominalism or Mirage Realism? Against Ostrich Nominalism: A Reply to Michael Devitt, Soft Impeachment Disowned, Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism, A World of Individuals, Acknowledgments
Biography
Michael Tooley
