The Routledge Handbook of Properties

by A.R.J. Fisher (Editor), Anna-Sofia Maurin (Editor)

Overview

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theorising. In philosophy, it is one of the oldest topics discussed in various intellectual traditions – East and West – reaching back to Plato and Aristotle. Today, in the analytic tradition, properties continue to be a core area of study and research.

The Routledge Handbook of Properties is an outstanding reference source to this perennial topic and is the first major volume of its kind. It contains forty specially commissioned chapters written by an international team of expert contributors, and is divided into nine clear parts:

• Methodology and Metaontology
• Distinctions
• Realism about Universals
• Nominalism
• Trope Theory
• Properties in Causation, Time, and Modality
• Properties in Science
• Properties in Language and Mind
• Properties in the Normative Realm, the Social World, and Aesthetics

The Routledge Handbook of Properties is essential reading for anyone studying and researching metaphysics, metametaphysics, and ontology, and will also be of interest to those in closely related areas such as philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032158761
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/22/2023
Series:	Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

A.R.J. Fisher is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University, USA. His research focuses on the metaphysics of properties, time, and modality. He also works on the history of twentieth-century metaphysics, writing on metaphysical topics from a historical perspective. He edited Donald C. Williams’s The Elements and Patterns of Being (2018), and is presently writing a monograph on Williams’s metaphysics (forthcoming).

Anna-Sofia Maurin is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research focuses on issues in (meta)metaphysics, especially tropes, unity in complexity, ontological justification, infinite regress arguments, grounding, and metaphysical explanation. Her most recent research also covers debates in social ontology. She is the author of If Tropes (2002), and Properties in the Cambridge Elements in Metaphysics series (2022).

Table of Contents

Introduction: the importance of properties A.R.J. Fisher and Anna-Sofia Maurin  Part 1: Methodology and metaontology  1. Quantification and ontological commitment Nicholas K. Jones  2. The method of paraphrase John A. Keller  3. Properties as truthmakers Bradley Rettler  4. Naturalness: abundant and sparse properties Elanor Taylor  Part 2: Distinctions  5. Universality and particularity Daniel Giberman  6. Are properties abstract entities? Sam Cowling  7. Relations: existence and Nature Fraser MacBride  8. Intrinsic/extrinsic Vera Hoffmann-Kolss  9. Essential versus accidental properties Fabrice Correia  10. Determinate/determinable Eric Funkhouser  Part 3: Realism about universals  11. Platonic realism Chad Carmichael  12. Immanent realism and states of affairs Bo R. Meinertsen  13. Location and properties Nikk Effingham  14. Universals and the bundle theory Jiri Benovsky  Part 4: Nominalism  15. Ostrich nominalism Michael Devitt  16. Class nominalism and resemblance nominalism Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra  17. Priority and grounding nominalism Guido Imaguire  18. Nominalism in mathematics Jody Azzouni  Part 5: Trope theory  19. Trope nominalisms Douglas Ehring  20. Types of tropes: modifier and module Robert K. Garcia  21. Trope bundle theories of substance Markku Keinänen and Jani Hakkarainen  22. Trope-relations Anna-Sofia Maurin  Part 6: Properties in causation, time, and modality  23. Causation and properties Carolina Sartorio  24. Dispositional properties Jennifer McKitrick  25. Events, processes, and properties Carlo Rossi  26. Temporal properties Katarina Perović  27. Possible worlds as properties Peter Forrest  28. Powers, potentialities and modality Barbara Vetter  Part 7: Properties in science  29. Properties and natural kinds Alexander Bird  30. Laws of nature Tuomas E. Tahko  31. Emergent properties Anne Sophie Meincke  32. Quantitative properties J.E. Wolff  Part 8: Properties in language and mind  33. Reference to properties in natural language Friederike Moltmann  34. Mental causation and higher-order properties David Robb  35. Qualia as properties of experiences Umut Baysan  36. Properties in perception Bence Nanay  Part 9: Properties in the normative realm, the social world, and aesthetics  37. Normative properties Matti Eklund  38. Moral properties Caj Strandberg  39. Social properties Dee Payton  40. Aesthetic properties Sonia Sedivy.  Index