Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if an agent A acts freely when choosing X, then A's choosing X cannot be necessary. But there are… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share
Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some points I… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
