| Description | | - Fills an important gap in the literature: properties are widely studied as a major topic in courses in several philosophical subfields at undergraduate and postgraduate levelbut this is the only collection to meet the specific requirements of such courses.
- Other new ORP volumes published at the same time are Mele, The Philosophy of Action; Crisp and Slote, Virtue Ethics; and Rachaels, Ethical Theory I and Ethical Theory II.
| About the Series:
The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editors of each volume contribute an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which
they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.
About this volume:
When we say a certain rose is red, we seem to be attributing a property, redness, to it. But are there really such properties? If so, what are they like, how do we know about them, and how are they related to the objects which have them and the linguistic devices which we use to talk
about them? This collection presents these ancient problems in a modern light. In particular, it makes accessible for the first time the most important contributions to the contemporary controversy about the nature of properties. Those new to the subject will find the clearly-written introduction, by two experts in the field, an invaluable guide to the intricacies of this debate. The volume
illustrates very well the aims and methods of modern metaphysics and shows how a thorough understanding of the metaphysics of properties is crucial to most of analytic philosophy.
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Readership: Undergraduates and graduates studying metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science; professionals working in these areas or in semantics-based linguistics.
| Contents |
Introduction
,
D. H. Mellor and Alex Oliver
I.
Function and Concept
,
Gottlob Frege
II.
The World of Universals
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Bertrand Russell
III.
On Our Knowledge of Universals
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Bertrand Russell
IV.
Universals
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F. P. Ramsey
V,.
On What There Is
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W. V. Quine
VI.
Statements About Universals
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Frank Jackson
VII.
Ostrich Nominalism or Mirage Realism?
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Michael Devitt
VIII.
Against Ostrich Nominalism: A Reply to Michael Devitt
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D. M. Armstrong
IX.
On the Elements of Being: I
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Donald C. Williams
X.
The Metaphysics of Abstract Particulars
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Keith Campbell
XI.
Tropes
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Chris Daly
XII.
Properties
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D. M. Armstrong
XIII.
Modal Realism at Work
,
David Lewis
XIV.
New Work For a Theory of Universals
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David Lewis
XV.
Causality and Properties
,
Sydney Shoemaker
XVI.
Properties and Predicates
,
D. H. Mellor
Notes on the Contributors
Select Bibliography
Index of Names
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by D. H. Mellor, Professor of Philosophy, Cambridge University and
Alex Oliver, University Assistant Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University, and Fellow, Queen's College, Cambridge
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