Maite Ezcurdia UNAM
'Comprensión y conocimiento'
Wednesday 18 june 2003 at 11:00 - PCB (Cúpules, Torre D)

2002-03 The Metaphysics of Properties

Introduction
D.H. Mellor & Axel Oliver 1997: 'Intorduction' in Properties, OUP)

Universals
David Armstrong 1997, A World of State of Affairs, Cambride UP, chapters 1 & 2
David Armstrong 1997, A World of State of Affairs, chapter 3
David Armstrong 1997, A World of State of Affairs, chapter 4

Tropes
Keith Campbell, 1981 'The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars', Midwest St in Philosophy VI 477-88, reprinted in Mellor & Oliver 1997
Chris Daly 1994/5, 'Tropes', reprinted in Mellor & Oliver 1997

Dispositions
Stephen Munford 1994: 'Dispositions, Sueprvenience and Reduction', Philosophical Quarterly 44/177, 419-38
David Lewis 1997, 'Finkish Dispositions,' Philosophical Quarterly 47/187, 143-158
Alex Bird 1998: 'Dispositions and Antidotes,' Philosophical Quarterly 48/191, 227-234 & Jonathan L. Kvanvig: 1999: 'Lewis on Finkish Dispositions,' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59/3, 703-710
D.H. Mellor 2000: 'The semantics and Ontology of Dispositions,' Mind 109, 757-80

Intrinsicness
Peter Valentyne: 'Intrinsic Properties Defined,' Philosophical Studies 88/2, 209-219
Rae Langton & David Lewis 1998: 'Defining 'Intrinsic'', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58.
Stephen Yablo 1998: "Intrinsicness," Philosophical Topics 26, 479-504

Relations
Tim Williamson 1985: 'Converse Relations', The Philosophical Review 94/2, 249-62
Kit Fine 2000: 'Neutral Relations', Philosophical Review 109/1, 1-33

Natural Kinds
Scott Soames 2002: Beyond Rigidity, OUP, ch 9
Josep Laporte 2000: 'Rigidity and Kind', Phil. Studies 97(3), 293-316
Stephen Schwartz 2002: 'Kinds, General Terms and Rigidity, Phil. Studies 109, 2002, 265-277
Mark Johnston1997: 'Manifest kinds', Journal of Philosophy
Barbara Abbott 1997: 'A note on the nature of 'water'', Mind 106, 311- 319 & Joseph Laporte 1998: 'Living Water', Mind 107, 451-7 & Barbara Abbott 1999, 'Water = H2O'. Mind 108, 145-148
Jasper Reid 2002: 'Natural Kind Essentialism', Australasian Journal 80, 62-74