The Routledge Handbook of Properties

ISBN-13: 9781032158761 / Twarda / 2023 / 472 str.

Opis

The Routledge Handbook of Properties is an outstanding reference source to this perennial topic and is the first major volume of its kind. Essential reading for anyone studying and researching metaphysics, metametaphysics, and ontology.

Spis treści

Introduction: the importance of properties A.R.J. Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maurin  Part 1: Methodology and metaontology  1. Quantification and ontological commitment Nicholas K. Jones  2. The method of paraphrase John A. Keller  3. Properties as truthmakers Bradley Rettler  4. Naturalness: abundant and sparse properties Elanor Taylor  Part 2: Distinctions  5. Universality and particularity Daniel Giberman  6. Are properties abstract entities? Sam Cowling  7. Relations: existence and Nature Fraser MacBride  8. Intrinsic/extrinsic Vera Hoffmann-Kolss  9. Essential versus accidental properties Fabrice Correia  10. Determinate/determinable Eric Funkhouser  Part 3: Realism about universals  11. Platonic universals Chad Carmichael  12. Immanent realism and states of affairs Bo R. Meinertsen  13. Location and properties Nikk Effingham  14. Universals and the bundle theory Jiri Benovsky  Part 4: Nominalism  15. Ostrich nominalism Michael Devitt  16. Class nominalism and resemblance nominalism Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra  17. Priority and grounding nominalism Guido Imaguire  18. Nominalism in mathematics Jody Azzouni  Part 5: Trope theory  19. Trope nominalisms Douglas Ehring  20. Types of tropes: modifier and module Robert K. Garcia  21. Trope bundle theories of substance Markku Keinänen and Jani Hakkarainen  22. Trope-relations Anna-Sofia Maurin  Part 6: Properties in causation, time, and modality  23. Causation and properties Carolina Sartorio  24. Dispositional properties Jennifer McKitrick  25. Events, processes, and properties Carlo Rossi  26. Temporal properties Katarina Perović  27. Possible worlds as properties Peter Forrest  28. Powers, potentialities and modality Barbara Vetter  Part 7: Properties in science  29. Properties and natural kinds Alexander Bird  30. Laws of nature Tuomas E. Tahko  31. Emergent properties Anne Sophie Meincke  32. Quantitative properties J.E. Wolff  Part 8: Properties in language and mind  33. Reference to properties in natural language Friederike Moltmann  34. Mental causation and higher-order properties David Robb  35. Qualia as properties of experiences Umut Baysan  36. Properties in perception Bence Nanay  Part 9: Properties in the normative realm, the social world, and aesthetics  37. Normative properties Matti Eklund  38. Moral properties Caj Strandberg  39. Social properties Dee Payton  40. Aesthetic properties Sonia Sedivy.  Index

O autorze

A.R.J. Fisher is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University, USA. His research focuses on the metaphysics of properties, time, and modality. He also works on the history of twentieth-century metaphysics, writing on metaphysical topics from a historical perspective. He edited Donald C. Williams’s The Elements and Patterns of Being (2018), and is presently writing a monograph on Williams’s metaphysics (forthcoming).

Anna-Sofia Maurin is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses on issues in (meta)metaphysics, especially tropes, unity in complexity, ontological justification, infinite regress arguments, grounding, and metaphysical explanation. Her most recent research also covers debates in social ontology. She is the author of If Tropes (2002), and Properties in the Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics series (2022).