SOME TROUBLES WITH THE SPECIOUS PRESENT IN BERGMANN’S IDEAL LANGUAGE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. INTRODUCTION 9
4. Categories of a realistic ontology
5. UNIVERSALS, PARTICULARS, TROPES AND BLOBS 15
6. THE MATTER OF PARTICULARS 45
7. BARE PARTICULARS: SOME REMARKS 65
8. ON BERGMANN’S READING OF THE “TRACTATUS” ONTOLOGY 81
9. COMPLEXES, NEXUS, AND FUNCTIONS THE MIDDLE AND THE LATE BERGMANN 99
10. BERGMANN AND EXEMPLIFICATION 109
11. World, mind, and relations
12. IS INTENTIONALITY MORE LIKE HUNTING OR MORE LIKE HITTING? GUSTAV BERGMANN ON SKEPTICISM AND KNOWLEDGE 125
13. BERGMANN’S CRITIQUE OF REPRESENTATIONALISM 147
14. THE PROBLEM OF ORDER IN RELATIONAL STATES OF AFFAIRS: A LEIBNIZIAN VIEW 161
15. SINGULAR PROPOSITIONS AS POSSIBLE STATES OF AFFAIRS 187
16. “... THE MOST MEMORABLE DON QUIXOTE OF A GREAT CAUSE” BERGMANN’S CRITIQUE OF MEINONG 201
17. Metaphysics of space and time
18. PARTICULARS AS AREAS AND DURATIONS 231
19. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE SPACE? 243
20. TENSELESS TIME VS. TENSED TRUTHMAKERS 253
21. SOME TROUBLES WITH THE SPECIOUS PRESENT IN BERGMANN’S IDEAL LANGUAGE 261
22. REFERENCES 273
23. Backmatter 275