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Tropes, universals and the philosophy of mind : essays at the boundary of ontology and philosophical psychology / Simone Gozzano, Francesco Orilia (eds.).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 24.
- Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical analysis ; Bd. 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ontology.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The ontological debate on the nature of properties is alive as ever. Mainly, they are viewed either as universals or tropes (abstract particulars), an alternative with an immediate impact on what events are taken to be. Although much inquiry in philosophy of mind is done without a full awareness of it, some recent works suggest that the choice may have far-reaching consequences on central topics of this discipline, e.g., token physicalism, multiple realizability, mental causation, perception, introspection, self-awareness. This book explores the extent to which this is true with novel contribu
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tropes, universals and the philosophy of mind: editors' introduction
- Modes and Mind / Heil, John
- Does Ontology Matter? / Maurin, Anna-Sofia
- BASIC ONTOLOGY, MULTIPLE REALIZABILITY AND MENTAL CAUSATION / Orilia, Francesco
- The "Supervenience Argument": Kim's Challenge to Nonreductive Physicalism / Marras, Ausonio / Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
- Tropes' Simplicity and Mental Causation / Gozzano, Simone
- Zombies from Below / Robb, David
- Tropes and Perception / Lowe, E. Jonathan
- About the authors
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 3-938793-83-X
- 3-11-032711-2
- OCLC:
- 851970819
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