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A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations

Shadow of Universals

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Authors:
  1. José Tomás Alvarado

    1. Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Macul – Santiago, Chile

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  • Of interest to anyone that wants to understand the current debate in metaphysics of properties
  • Provides a detailed and thoughtful defense of Platonic universals
  • Explains the advantages of Platonic over Aristotelian universals in the metaphysics of modality and natural laws

Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 428)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • José Tomás Alvarado
    Pages 1-19

  3. Universals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Theoretical Roles for Universals

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 23-43

    3. The Superiority of Universals Over Resemblance Nominalism

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 45-80

    4. The Superiority of Universals Over Classes of Tropes

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 81-106

    5. The Superiority of Universals over Theological Nominalism

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 107-126

  4. Transcendent Universals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Transcendent Universals and Modal Metaphysics

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 129-157

    3. Transcendent Universals and Natural Laws

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 159-187

    4. Transcendent Universals and Ontological Priority

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 189-200

    5. Objections Against Transcendent Universals

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 201-245

    6. Identity Conditions for Transcendent Universals

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 247-259

  5. Particulars

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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    2. Substrata and Bundles

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 263-286

    3. The Nuclear Theory of Trope Bundles

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 287-310

    4. The Reformed Nuclear Theory

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 311-345

    5. By Way of Conclusion: (Neo) Platonism

      • José Tomás Alvarado
      Pages 347-351

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 353-362
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About this book

This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why universals are the entities that best satisfy the theoretical roles required for a property. The work also explains the advantages of Platonic over Aristotelian universals in the metaphysics of modality and natural laws. Moreover, it is argued that only Platonic universals are coherent with the grounding profile required for universals. The traditional objections against Platonism are discussed and answered. The third part of the book, finally, offers a conception of particular objects as nuclear bundles of tropes that is coherent with the Platonic ontology of universals. This book is of interest to anyone that wants to understand the current –and intricate– debate in metaphysics of properties and its incidence in many other areas in philosophy.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Macul – Santiago, Chile

    José Tomás Alvarado

About the author

José Tomás Alvarado (Santiago de Chile, 1969) is Associate Professor of the Institute of Philosophy of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago, Chile). His research has been focused on metaphysics of modality and metaphysics of properties. Shadow of Universals is the fruit of more than twelve years of work, developed and defended in more than one hundred papers published mainly in Spanish-speaking journals and discussed in the Spanish-speaking philosophical community in the last decade.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations

  • Book Subtitle: Shadow of Universals

  • Authors: José Tomás Alvarado

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53393-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53392-2Published: 28 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53395-3Published: 28 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53393-9Published: 27 October 2020

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Ontology

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