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Phenomenological Realism Versus Scientific Realism Reinhardt Grossmann - David M. Armstrong Metaphysical Correspondence

:	Javier Cumpa, Erwin Tegtmeier
:	Phenomenological Realism Versus Scientific Realism Reinhardt Grossmann - David M. Armstrong Metaphysical Correspondence
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110326062
:	Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical AnalysisISSN
:	1
:	CHF 111.40
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:	20. und 21. Jahrhundert
:	English

:	139
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The two eminent metaphysicians Armstrong and Grossmann exchanged letters for ten years in which they discussed crucial points of their respective ontologies. They have a common basis. Both do metaphysics proper and not linguistic philosophy. Both advocate universals and acknowledge the key position of the category of states of affairs. However, they differ on the simplicity of universals and the nature of states of affairs. There is also a fundamental methodological disagreement between them. Armstrong accepts only the evidence of natural science and has a materialist view on mind while Grossmann is a dualist and grants also the same evidential status to the phenomenological data of perception and introspection. The letters are grouped into three phases. The first is the issue of universals, the second the ontological analysis of laws of nature and the third the ontology of numbers. The book contains also longer comments and reviews, partly not published until now.

	Table of Contents	5
	Acknowledgements	9
	Preface	11
	Introduction	13
	Beginning: Universals	19
	The Start	21
	On the Simplicity of Universals	25
	On the Complexity of Universals	26
	The Phenomenological Argument for the Simplicity of Universals	27
	The Scientific Argument for the Complexity of Universals	28
	Objections	30
	A Reply to Objections	31
	A Legacy: Gustav Bergman	33
	A Legacy: John Anderson	34
	The Nature of Universals	35
	A Reply	51
	1. Grossmann on Exemplification	52
	2. Are there Conjunctive Properties?	55
	3. Structural Properties	58
	4. Ontology and the Physical Universe	59
	Objections	63
	A Reply to Objections	69
	Universals and Classes: A Question	72
	Universals and Classes: An Answer	73
	Objections	74
	A Reply to Objections	75
	Middle: Laws of Nature	77
	Laws of Nature as Quantified Facts	79
	Laws of Nature as Connectionsbetween Universals	80
	An Objection	82
	A Reply	84
	An Epistemological Problem:The Synthetic A Priori Truths	85
	A Solution: Causation	87
	An Objection: Induction	89
	End:The Nature of Numbers	91
	A Coincidence	93
	Numbers Tied to Aggregates	94
	An Objection: On Mereological Categories	95
	A Reply: On Mereological Categories	98
	Aggregates and Sets: A Question	99
	Aggregates and Sets: An Answer	101
	A Problem: Wholes and Mereological Sums	103
	A Solution: The Identity Conditions for Mereological Sums	105
	Concluding Remarks on Numbers andMereology	107
	Appendices	109
	1. Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontology	111
	2. Comments on Armstrong’s “Universals”	127
	3. Comments on Grossmann’s“The Existence of the World”	131
	Bibliography	137