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A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and Their Instantiations: Shadow of Universals

A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and Their Instantiations: Shadow of Universals

Alvarado, José Tomás

Hardcover

Series: Synthese Library, Book 428

Philosophy

ISBN10: 3030533921
ISBN13: 9783030533922
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 28 2020
Pages: 362
Weight: 1.54
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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