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Universals, Properties & Kinds

Selected Readings:

Armstrong, D. M. Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. I: Nominalism and Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

________. Universals and Scientific Realism Vol. 2: A Theory of Universals. Cambridge: Cambridge: University Press, 1978.

________. Universals: An Opinionated Introduction. Westview Press, 1989.

________. A World of States of Affairs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

________. “Can A Naturalist Believe in Universals?,” in Science in Reflection, edited by Edna Ulmann-Margalit. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

Bealer, George, Quality and Concept. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.

Campbell, Keith. Abstract Particulars. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Connell, Richard. Substance and Modern Science. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988.

Hull, David. The Metaphysics of Evolution. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York, 1989.

Jubien, Michael, “On Properties and Property Theory,” in G. Chierchia and B. H. Partee, eds. Properties, Types and Meaning. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.

Loux, Michael J. Substance and Attribute. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1978.

Mellor, D. H. and Oliver, Alex, eds. Properties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Moreland, J.P. “Naturalism and the Ontological Status of Properties,” in Naturalism: A Critical Analysis. Edited by J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig, NY: Routledge, 2000, pp. 67-109.

________. “Was Husserl a Nominalist?” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (June 1989): 661-74.

________. Universals, Qualities and Quality-Instances. Landham, Md.: University Press of America, 1985.

Oliver, Alex. “The Metaphysics of Properties” in Mind 105 (1996): 1-80.

Sober, Elliott. “Evolutionary Theory and the Ontological Status of Properties,” in Philosophical Studies 40 (1981): 147-76.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. On Universals. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970

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