A metaphysics of platonic universals and their instantiations : shadow of universals

Author(s)

• Alvarado, José Tomás

Bibliographic Information

A metaphysics of platonic universals and their instantiations : shadow of universals

José Tomás Alvarado

（Synthese library, v. 428）

Springer, c2020

Note

Bibliography: p. 353-362

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why universals are the entities that best satisfy the theoretical roles required for a property. The work also explains the advantages of Platonic over Aristotelian universals in the metaphysics of modality and natural laws. Moreover, it is argued that only Platonic universals are coherent with the grounding profile required for universals. The traditional objections against Platonism are discussed and answered. The third part of the book, finally, offers a conception of particular objects as nuclear bundles of tropes that is coherent with the Platonic ontology of universals. This book is of interest to anyone that wants to understand the current -and intricate- debate in metaphysics of properties and its incidence in many other areas in philosophy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Part I. UniversalsChapter 2. Theoretical roles for universalsChapter 3. The superiority of universals over resemblance nominalismChapter 4. The superiority of universals over classes of tropesChapter 5. The superiority of universals over theological nominalism Part II. Transcendent UniversalsChapter 6. Transcendent universals and modal metaphysicsChapter 7. Transcendent universals and natural lawsChapter 8. Transcendent universals and ontological priorityChapter 9. Objections against transcendent universalsChapter 10. Identity conditions for transcendent universals Part III. ParticularsChapter 11. Substrata and bundlesChapter 12. The nuclear theory of trope bundlesChapter 13. The reformed nuclear theoryChapter 14. By way of conclusion: (neo) Platonism Bibliography

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC04884153
• ISBN:
  • 9783030533922
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cham
• Pages/Volumes: x, 362 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00017801