The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Body 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Bundles 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Boys 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Certain 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Giving 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Arguing 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.… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Berkeley Copy Share Image
Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property. — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Class 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Becoming 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Accounts 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Conditions 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Doe Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Clarity Copy Share Image
For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Bundles Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Composition Copy Share Image
Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Discipline Copy Share Image
The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Attention Copy Share Image
Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Agents 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… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Discipline Copy Share Image
When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Bounds Copy Share Image
Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Cases Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Believe Copy Share Image
I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Body Copy Share Image
