A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and Their Instantiations: Shadow of Universals

ISBN-13: 9783030533922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 362 str.

José Tomás Alvarado

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Universals

Chapter 2. Theoretical roles for universals

Chapter 3. The superiority of universals over resemblance nominalism

Chapter 4. The superiority of universals over classes of tropes

Chapter 5. The superiority of universals over theological nominalism

Part II. Transcendent Universals

Chapter 6. Transcendent universals and modal metaphysics

Chapter 7. Transcendent universals and natural laws

Chapter 8. Transcendent universals and ontological priority

Chapter 9. Objections against transcendent universals

Chapter 10. Identity conditions for transcendent universals

Part III. Particulars

Chapter 11. Substrata and bundles

Chapter 12. The nuclear theory of trope bundles

Chapter 13. The reformed nuclear theory

Chapter 14. By way of conclusion: (neo) Platonism

Bibliography

O autorze

José Tomás Alvarado (Santiago de Chile, 1969) is Associate Professor of the Institute of Philosophy of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago, Chile). His research has been focused on metaphysics of modality and metaphysics of properties. Shadow of Universals is the fruit of more than twelve years of work, developed and defended in more than one hundred papers published mainly in Spanish-speaking journals and discussed in the Spanish-speaking philosophical community in the last decade.

Blurb

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.