Tropes
Subtitle: properties, objects, and mental causation
By: Douglas Ehring
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780199608539
Subjects: Tropes (Philosophy)
Description: Presents a defense of tropes--properties and relations understood as particulars--and of trope bundle theory as the best accounts of properites and objects. Advocates a specific brand of trope nominalism, Natural Class Trope Nominalism, which rejects the existence of universals, and holds that the nature of each individual trope is determined by its membership in various natural classes of tropes (in contrast with the view that a trope's nature is logically prior to those class memberships).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Tropes. Distinguishing particulars from universals; title: Why believe in tropes?; title: The individuation of tropes; title: Bundle theory; title: Tropes and mental causation; title: pt. II. Natural class trope nominalism. Why natural class tropes?; title: The classic objections to natural class trope nominalism; title: The determination objections.