These essays bring together forty years of work in ontology. Intentionality, negation, universals, bare particulars, tropes, general facts, relations, the myth

This volume is about ontological categories. The categories of an ontology are designed to classify all existents. They are crucial and characterize an ontology

by D. M. Armstrong In the history of the discussion of the problem of universals, G. F. Stout has an honoured, and special. place. For the Nominalist, meaning b

The purpose of this essay is to defend the deductive-nomological model of explanation against a number of criticisms that have been made of it. It has tradition

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science (ed. Philip MacEwen) makes the case that there are other, and arguably better, ways of understandin