Metaphysics Of States Of Affairs

Author : Bo R. Meinertsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811330689
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics of States of Affairs written by Bo R. Meinertsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-06 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 positive truths. In the book's context, this has the pleasing result that there are no molecular states of affairs. Following this account of truthmaking, the author first shows that the particulars in (first-order) states of affairs are bare particulars. He then argues that the properties in states of affairs are simple, non-relational and concrete universals. Next, he argues that (material) relations in states of affairs are external relations. Lastly, he argues that a state of affairs is unified by a distinctive formal relation without giving rise to Bradley’s regress. Written in a relatively non-technical style, the book offers a valuable resource for philosophers working on analytic metaphysics and ontology, as well as their graduate students.

Author : D. M. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589482
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World of States of Affairs written by D. M. Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190282932
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Metaphysics of Modality written by Alvin Plantinga and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga. Collected here are some of his most important essays on this influential subject. Dating back from the late 1960's to the present, they chronicle the development of Plantinga's thoughts about some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but non-actual objects? Can objects that do not exist exemplify properties? Plantinga gives thorough and penetrating answers to all of these questions and many others. This volume contains some of the best work in metaphysics from the past 30 years, and will remain a source of critical contention and keen interest among philosophers of metaphysics and philosophical logic for years to come.

Author : Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198735871
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Relations written by Anna Marmodoro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, 15 philosophers offer new essays exploring the metaphysics of relations from antiquity to the present day. From those who question whether there are relational properties at all, to those who hold they are a fundamental part of reality, the essays cover a wide range of views on the nature and ontological status of relations.

Author : D. M. Armstrong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199590613
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics written by D. M. Armstrong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tries to present in brief compass a metaphysical system, matured (as is hoped) over many years. By metaphysics is understood an account of the fundamental categories of being, such notions as property, relation, causality. These notions are more abstract than the results of scientific inquiry, and are controversial among scientists as well as among philosophers. The book sprang from lectures given to graduate students, and has deliberately been kept at an informal level. It includes some explanations not required in a book for professional philosophers. The argument is developed in sixteen short chapters. It is argued that the world is a world of states of affairs, involving universals and particulars. The notion of finding suitable truthmakers for truths grows in importance as the book proceeds.

Author : Elizabeth Barnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135007713
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Controversies in Metaphysics written by Elizabeth Barnes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such key issues as: modality, fundamentality, composition, the object/property distinction, and indeterminacy. The contributors include some of the most important philosophers currently writing on these issues. The questions and philosophers are: Are there any individuals at the fundamental level? / (1) Shamik Dasgupta (2) Jason Turner Is there an objective difference between essential and accidental properties? / (1) Meghan Sullivan (2) Kris McDaniel and Steve Steward Are there any worldly states of affairs? / (1) Daniel Nolan (2) Joseph Melia Are there any intermediate states of affairs? / (1) Jessica Wilson (2) Elizabeth Barnes and Ross Cameron Do ordinary objects exist? / (1) Trenton Merricks (2) Helen Beebee Editor Elizabeth Barnes guides readers through these controversies (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction and succinct abstracts of each debate.

Author : Paolo Crivelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139455664
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Truth written by Paolo Crivelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's theory of truth, which has been the most influential account of the concept of truth from Antiquity onwards, spans several areas of philosophy: philosophy of language, logic, ontology and epistemology. In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle's views on truth and falsehood. He analyses in detail the main relevant passages, addresses some well-known problems of Aristotelian semantics, and assesses Aristotle's theory from the point of view of modern analytic philosophy. In the process he discusses most of the literature on Aristotle's semantic theory to have appeared in the last two centuries. His book vindicates and clarifies the often repeated claim that Aristotle's is a correspondence theory of truth. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers working in both ancient philosophy and modern philosophy of language.

Author : Robert Trueman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840477
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Properties and Propositions written by Robert Trueman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulates and defends a novel theory of properties and propositions, based on Frege's insight that properties are not objects.

Author : Uwe Meixner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326086
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modelling Metaphysics written by Uwe Meixner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model. The small size of the model makes it possible to treat metaphysical matters with a more than usual systematicity and comprehensiveness. In the mirror of sustained analogy, simulation-metaphysics offers a wealth of insights on the real thing: on the doctrines, the methods, and the epistemology of metaphysics.

Author : Mark Jago
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198823819
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Truth is written by Mark Jago and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.--