Metaphysics and Scientific Realism : : Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong /

Metaphysics and Scientific Realism : : Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong / / ed. by Francesco Federico Calemi.

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David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926–13 May 2014) has been one of the most influential contemporary metaphysicians working in the analytic tradition and surely the greatest 20th century Australian philosopher. His main merit is to have reestablished metaphysics as a respectable branch of philosophy pl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Borghini, Andrea,
Calemi, Francesco F.,
Cumpa, Javier,
Inwagen, Peter van,
Maurin, Anna-Sofia,
Mellor, D. H.,
Miller, Kristie,
Mumford, Stephen,
Orilia, Francesco,
Paolini Paoletti, Michele,
Simons, Peter,
Tahko, Tuomas E.,
Tugby, Matthew,
Vallicella, William F.,
Valore, Paolo,
HerausgeberIn:
Calemi, Francesco Federico,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Eide : Foundations of Ontology , 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Mirage Realism Revisited
  • Ostrich Nominalism or Ostrich Platonism?
  • In Defense of Transcendent Universals
  • Armstrong and Tropes
  • Tropes: For and Against
  • Facts: An Essay in Aporetics
  • Armstrong’s Hidden Substantialism
  • Persisting Particulars and their Properties
  • Armstrong on Dispositions and Laws of Nature
  • Recombination for Combinatorialists
  • Who’s Afraid of Non-Existent Manifestations?
  • Armstrong on Truthmaking and Realism
  • From Translations to Truthmakers
  • Armstrong’s Supervenience and Ontological Dependence
  • Naturalism as a Background Metaphysics
  • Index

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