Metaphysics of States of Affairs: Truthmaking, Universals, and a Farewell to Bradley's Regress
暫譯: 事態的形而上學:真實生成、普遍性與告別布拉德利的回歸
Meinertsen, Bo R.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2019-04-15
- 售價: $3,860
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $3,667
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 174
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9811330670
- ISBN-13: 9789811330674
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物理學 Physics
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商品描述
This book addresses the metaphysics of Armstrongian states of affairs, i.e. instantiations of naturalist universals by particulars. The author argues that states of affairs are the best candidate for truthmakers and, in the spirit of logical atomism, that we need no molecular truthmakers for positive truths. In the book's context, this has the pleasing result that there are no molecular states of affairs. Following this account of truthmaking, the author first shows that the particulars in (first-order) states of affairs are bare particulars. He then argues that the properties in states of affairs are simple, non-relational and concrete universals. Next, he argues that (material) relations in states of affairs are external relations. Lastly, he argues that a state of affairs is unified by a distinctive formal relation without giving rise to Bradley's regress. Written in a relatively non-technical style, the book offers a valuable resource for philosophers working on analytic metaphysics and ontology, as well as their graduate students.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
本書探討了阿姆斯壯(Armstrong)狀態的形而上學,即由特定事物實現的自然主義普遍性。作者主張,狀態是真理製造者的最佳候選者,並且在邏輯原子論的精神下,我們不需要分子真理製造者來支持正面真理。在本書的背景下,這帶來了一個令人愉快的結果,即不存在分子狀態。根據這一真理製造的說法,作者首先展示了(第一階)狀態中的特定事物是純粹的特定事物。接著,他主張狀態中的性質是簡單的、非關係的和具體的普遍性。然後,他主張狀態中的(物質)關係是外部關係。最後,他主張狀態是由一種獨特的形式關係統一的,而不會引起布拉德利的回歸。這本書以相對非技術性的風格撰寫,為從事分析形而上學和本體論的哲學家以及他們的研究生提供了寶貴的資源。