Glop theory : a new trope ontology
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The dissertation has two parts, one critical and one positive. Part One presents arguments against bare particulars, zero-dimensional material objects, extended simples, universals, and three-dimensionalist accounts of persistence over time. Part Two posits and defends a novel property—markedness (a Grounding Local Ontological Primitive, or GLOP)—that marks out certain regions of spacetime, thus furnishing a sort of binary code for fundamental ontology. Glop theory is then used to develop new accounts of property exemplification, ontological fundamentality, and persistence. What emerges is an ontology according to which material objects are four-dimensional trope bundles that need not be composed of simple parts. This result is desirable if, as Part One maintains, we should resist commitment to bare particulars, material simples, universals, and three-dimensionalism.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2010 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Giberman, Daniel Gary |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Philosophy |
| Primary advisor | Crimmins, Mark |
| Primary advisor | Perry, John |
| Thesis advisor | Crimmins, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Perry, John |
| Thesis advisor | Ryckman, Thomas |
| Advisor | Ryckman, Thomas |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daniel G. Giberman. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Philosophy. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 2010. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2010 by Daniel Gary Giberman
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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