Ontology, Causality, and Mind

by Edited by John Bacon , Keith Campbell , Lloyd Reinhardt

• ISBN13: 9780521068413
• ISBN10: 052106841X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

D. M. Armstrong is an eminent Australian philosopher whose work over many years has dealt with such subjects as: the nature of possibility, concepts of the particular and the general, causes and laws of nature, and the nature of human consciousness. This collection of essays explores the many facets of Armstrong's work, concentrating on his more recent interests. There are four sections to the book: possibility andidentity, universals, laws and causality and philosophy of mind. The contributors comprise an international group of philosophers from the United States, England and Australia. An interesting feature of the volume is that Armstrong himself has written responses to each of the essays. There is also a complete bibliography of Armstrong's writings.

Table of Contents

Preface

Possibility and Identity

Armstrong's new combinatorialist theory of modality

Many, but almost one

The Theory of Universals

Just like quarks? the status of repeatables

Sets are haecceities

Properties and predicates

Causality and Laws of Nature

Are causal laws contingent?

Laws of nature as a species of regularities

Power for realists

Laws of nature, modality and humean supervenience

Consciousness and Secondary Qualities

Block's challenge

David Armstrong and realism about colour

Bibliography of the works of

Index

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