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Record Nr.

UNINA9911131999003321

Titolo

Tropes, universals and the philosophy of mind : essays at the boundary of ontology and philosophical psychology / / Simone Gozzano, Francesco Orilia (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2008

ISBN

3-938793-83-X

3-11-032711-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical analysis ; ; Bd. 24

Altri autori (Persone)

GozzanoSimone

OriliaFrancesco <1956->

Disciplina

100

Soggetti

Ontology

Philosophy of mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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