Tropes properties, objects, and mental causation

Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes - properties and relations understood as particulars - provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defends a new theory of t...

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Main Author: Ehring, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011, 2011
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Summary:Properties and objects are everywhere, but remain a philosophical mystery. Douglas Ehring argues that the idea of tropes - properties and relations understood as particulars - provides the best foundation for a metaphysical account of properties and objects. He develops and defends a new theory of trope nominalism
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780191729607
0191729604