Metaphysics and Scientific Realism

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Metaphysics and Scientific Realism

Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong

Edited by: Francesco Federico Calemi

Volume 9 in the series Eide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110455915

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About this book

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 placing it at the centre of the philosophical debate, and giving it the status of an authoritative and competent interlocutor of both rational and empirical sciences. By means of a rigorously argumentative approach and a sharp prose, Armstrong has built a whole metaphysical system, that is, a comprehensive and unified picture of the fundamental structure of the world. The various chapters of the book address the key issues concerning Armstrong' view about the problem of universals, the nature of states of affairs, the ontological ground of possibility, nomic necessity, and dispositions, the truthmaker theory, and the theory of mind. This volume aims to celebrate Armstrong’s memory bringing new understanding, and hopefully stimulating more work, on his philosophy, with the conviction that it constitutes an invaluable heritage for contemporary research in metaphysics.

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Francesco F. Calemi, University of Perugia, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Mirage Realism Revisited Matthew Tugby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Ostrich Nominalism or Ostrich Platonism? Francesco F. Calemi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
In Defense of Transcendent Universals Peter van Inwagen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Armstrong and Tropes Peter Simons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Tropes: For and Against Anna-Sofia Maurin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Facts: An Essay in Aporetics William F. Vallicella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Armstrong’s Hidden Substantialism Javier Cumpa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Persisting Particulars and their Properties Kristie Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Armstrong on Dispositions and Laws of Nature Stephen Mumford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Recombination for Combinatorialists Andrea Borghini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Who’s Afraid of Non-Existent Manifestations? Michele Paolini Paoletti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Armstrong on Truthmaking and Realism Tuomas E. Tahko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
From Translations to Truthmakers D. H. Mellor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Armstrong’s Supervenience and Ontological Dependence Francesco Orilia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Naturalism as a Background Metaphysics Paolo Valore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, institutions, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 262
Keywords: Laws of Nature; Scientific Realism; Naturalism; Theory of Mind; Truthmaker

eBook

Published: January 15, 2016
ISBN: 9783110455915

Hardcover

Published: January 15, 2016
ISBN: 9783110454611

Paperback

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110578263