3.90 avg rating — 63 ratings

"This is an indispensable collection of (translations of) the discussions of the Problem of Universals in late antiquity and the Middle Ages."

3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings

"This is one of the best books on the problem in earlier analytic philosophy, though by now it is a little dated."

4.18 avg rating — 120 ratings

"This book contains perhaps the first formal definition of the concept of a universal in the history of philosophy."

3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings

"This book pretty much initiated the contemporary discussion of the Problem of Universals; Armstrong defends immanent realism about universals i.e. Immanent Universalism."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings

"A good collection of articles intorducing a reader to the contemporary discussion of the problem."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings

"This book contains an indispensable collection of the discussions of the Problem of Universals in late antiquity."

4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating

"This book defends Universalism, specifically a theory of transcendent universals, and develops a theory of modality on their basis."

3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings

"This is one of the most important recent monographs defending a theory accoding to which which there are both tropes and universals (though Lowe does not use these terms, preferring to speak of modes rather than tropes); Barry Smith has developed a similar theory but only in articles."

3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

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"The second of the three essays deals with properties; it is a translation of the Swedish book Begreppet egenskap elsewehere on this list."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings

4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings

4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings

3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings

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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

"In attacking facts Betti hypothetically defends an influential version of Trope Theory, the theory of relata-specific relation tropes, similar to the theory of Maurin."

3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings

4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

"This book defends Universalism among related topics."

3.83 avg rating — 2,132 ratings

"Though mostly concerned with topics in cosmology, this book contains one exposition of Plato's theory of Ideas, which obscurely anticipates Transcendent Universalism."

3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings

"This book contains a theory of attributes which is a version of Universalism, specifically a theory of transcendent universals."

3.89 avg rating — 167 ratings

"In this book Porphyry first explicitly formulated the Problem of Universals, though it had been implicitly discussed before."

3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings

3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings

"This book defends nominalism on the basis of a discussion of the metatheory of the problem of Universals."

4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings

4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings

"This translation of an early work of Husserl (when he was still a realist rather than an idealist) contains a theory of essences which is a form of Universalism, realism about universals."

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings

"This book begins the (translation of the) most important work developing a realistic (as opposed to idealistic) version of phenomenology after the early Husserl, which involves among many other things realism concerning universals."

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating

"A good collection of articles about the contemporary discussion of the problem."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

"This book defends nominalism on the basis of a discussion of the metatheory of the problem of Universals."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating

"This book develops a version of trope theory, the theory of relata-specific compresence tropes."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings

4.17 avg rating — 510 ratings

"Section 1.5 of this book, Modal Realism at Work: Properties, has been very influentail on discussions of the Problem of Universals."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

4.39 avg rating — 44 ratings

3.85 avg rating — 84 ratings

3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings

"The book investigates historically and systematically theories of accidents and moments, which can be considered as early forms of Trope Theory."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

"This book defends nominalism on the basis of a discussion of the metatheory of the problem of Universals."

4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings

"Chapter 2 of this work deals with properties and so is relevant to the problem."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating

it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

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"This book contains the article 'The Elements of Being', which is one of the earliest formulations of trope theory. (Other books on the list also contain it.)"

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating

"This book contains (a newer translation of) Wycliff's very interesting defence of an extreme realism concerning universals, a theory in which ther are both transcendent and immanent universals."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

"This book contains (an older translation of) Wycliff's very interesting defence of an extreme realism concerning universals, a theory according to which there are both transcendent and immanent universals."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,061 ratings

"In this very difficult and obscure book Plato apparently criticizes his own Theory of Ideas, which obscurely anticipates Universalism."

3.90 avg rating — 18,552 ratings

4.31 avg rating — 85 ratings

"This book contains (section 30, pages 179-183) a short collection of reports of the Stoic view about universals (a form of Concept Nominalism or conceptualism) with some commentary."

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

"This book develops among other things a formal theory of properties, and so is relevant to the problem."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating

"This book presents (among many other topics) in Chapter V a historically important theory of particular characters that anticipates Trope Theory."

4.20 avg rating — 939 ratings

"Whitehead's theory of eternal objects developed in this book is a form of Universalism, and so an answer to the Problem of Universals."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating

"This book develops among other things formal theories of properties, and so is relevant to the problem."

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

"This is my own attempt to clarify issues in the metatheory of the Problem of Universals and to defend tentatively a form of Universalism."

1.86 avg rating — 7 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating

"The book deals the history of the Problem of Individuation, which is closely connected with the Problem of Universals."

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

"The book deals with the Problem of Individuation, which is closely connected with the Problem of Universals."

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings

"Monien muiden aiheiden ohella Krohn pulustaa realismia universaaleista Husserlin varhaista realistista fenomenologiaa seuraten."

2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings

4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings

"This book contains the article 'Universals', where Ramsey denies the genuineness of the distinction between universals and particulars and so the legitimacy of the whole Problem of Universals. (Other books on the list also contain it.)"

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating

3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings

3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings

"This book contains a defence of Nominalism, in one perhaps non-standard sense of the word, and a defence of what would standardly be called Realism or Universalism."

3.97 avg rating — 224,826 ratings

"Though mostly concerned with topics in ethics and politics, this dialogue contains one exposition of Plato's theory of Ideas, which obscurely anticipates Universalism, specifically a theory of transcendent universals."

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings

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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings

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"This book is written by one of the most important defenders of genuine realism about universals during the late middle ages."

4.20 avg rating — 147 ratings

"Though mostly relevant to the philosophy of religion, this very difficult book treats some topics, such as Platonic ideas and participation, which are peripherally relevant to the history of the Problem of Universals."

4.14 avg rating — 1,223 ratings

"Articles in this book have been very influential in the metatheory of the Problem of Universals."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings

4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings

3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings