Metaphysics of States of Affairs Truthmaking, Universals, and a Farewell to Bradley's Regress /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Meinertsen, Bo R. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Philosophical Studies Series, 136
• Θέματα: Metaphysics.; Ontology.; Modern philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.

This book addresses the metaphysics of Armstrongian states of affairs, i.e. instantiations of naturalist universals by particulars. The author argues that states of affairs are the best candidate for truthmakers and, in the spirit of logical atomism, that we need no molecular truthmakers for positiv...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Problem of Unity
• Chapter 3. Truth-Making
• Chapter 4. A Challenger: Trope Theory
• Chapter 5. A Challenger: Moderate Realism
• Chapter 6. Bare Particulars
• Chapter 7. Properties
• Chapter 8. Relations
• Chapter 9. Concrete Universals
• Chapter 10. The Unity of States of Affairs
• Chapter 11. Bradley's Regress and the Unity of States of Affairs.