Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree. — 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
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
