Armstrong and Tropes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Mirage Realism Revisited 13
5. Ostrich Nominalism or Ostrich Platonism? 31
6. In Defense of Transcendent Universals 51
7. Armstrong and Tropes 71
8. Tropes: For and Against 85
9. Facts: An Essay in Aporetics 105
10. Armstrong’s Hidden Substantialism 133
11. Persisting Particulars and their Properties 139
12. Armstrong on Dispositions and Laws of Nature 161
13. Recombination for Combinatorialists 177
14. Who’s Afraid of Non-Existent Manifestations? 193
15. Armstrong on Truthmaking and Realism 207
16. From Translations to Truthmakers 219
17. Armstrong’s Supervenience and Ontological Dependence 233
18. Naturalism as a Background Metaphysics 253
19. Index 261