Browsing Davis, Richard B. by Subject "Individuation (Philosophy)"

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    • Are Bare Particulars Constituents? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (SpringerDordrecht, Netherlands, 2013)
      In this article I examine an as yet unexplored aspect of J.P. Moreland’s defense of so-called bare particularism — the ontological theory according to which ordinary concrete particulars (e.g., Socrates) contain bare ...

    • The Brave New Particularism 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (St. Louis University. College of Philosophy and LettersSt. Louis, MO, 2004-05)

    • Haecceities, Individuation and the Trinity: A Reply to Keith Yandell 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Cambridge University PressCambridge, UK, 2002-06)
      In this paper I reply to Keith Yandell’s recent charge that Anselmian theists cannot also be Trinitarians. Yandell’s case turns on the contention that it is impossible to individuate Trinitarian members, if they exist ...

    • How to Individuate Universals—Or Not 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Kluwer Academic PublishersDordrecht, Netherlands, 2013)
      In a recent article in this journal, J. P. Moreland (2013) extends his theory of individuation to include universals. In this note, I show how Moreland’s novel proposal leads to the unwanted conclusion that every concrete ...

    • Is Socrates a Predicate? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (De GruyterBerlin, Germany, 2006)
      In his Moderate Realism and Its Logic (Yale, 1996), Donald Mertz argues that the traditional ontology of nonpredicable substances and predicable universals is beset by “intractable problems,” “harbors an insidious error,” ...

    • A Puzzle for Particulars? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963-; Brown, David S. (Springer[S.l.], 2008)