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Tropes - Properties, Objects, and Mental Causation (Hardcover)
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Tropes - Properties, Objects, and Mental Causation (Hardcover)
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Properties and objects are everywhere. We cannot take a step
without walking into them; we cannot construct a theory in science
without referring to them. Given their ubiquitous character, one
might think that there would be a standard metaphysical account of
properties and objects, but they remain a philosophical mystery.
Douglas Ehring presents a defense of tropes--properties and
relations understood as particulars--and of trope bundle theory as
the best accounts of properties and objects, and advocates a
specific brand of trope nominalism, Natural Class Trope Nominalism.
This position 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).
The first part of the book provides a general introduction and
defense of tropes and trope bundle theory. Ehring demonstrates that
there are tropes and indicates some of the things that tropes can
do for us metaphysically, including helping to solve the problems
of mental causation, while remaining neutral between different
theories of tropes. In the second part he offers a more specific
defense of Natural Class Trope Nominalism, and provides a full
analysis of what a trope is.
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