Concrete Particulars: A Metaphysics of Spatiotemporal Entities

Half Title page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
	Note
Acknowledgments
1 Concrete Particulars and Markedness
	1.1 Abstract/Concrete
	1.2 Universal/Particular
	1.3 Tropes and Markedness
		1.3.1 Tropes: An Opinionated Primer
		1.3.2 Markedness: An Introduction
	1.4 Methodology
		1.4.1 Sidestep: The Ontology of Language, Mathematics, and Modality
		1.4.2 Parsimony and Spatiotemporal Features
		1.4.3 Explanatory Scope and Unending Structures
		1.4.4 Metaphysical Modality, Post-Modality, and Theory Choice
		1.4.5 Metaphysics, Physics, and Consciousness
	1.5 A Look Ahead
	Notes
2 The (Meta-)Philosophy of (Meta-)Physics: Some Sociological and Philosophical Observations
	2.1 The Prints and the Phone Booth: Is Metaphysics Obsolete?
	2.2 Making Contact
	2.3 Fundamentality and Fundamentality
		2.3.1 Extra-Empirical Fundamentality
		2.3.2 Against Modal Killjoy
		2.3.3 Flash in the Pan?
	2.4 Case Studies: Strings, Fibers, and ‘Bad’ Metaphysics
	2.5 Re-Tooling
	Notes
3A A Default Case for Tropes I: Nominalisms
	3.1 The Primacy of the Qualitative
		3.1.1 The Need for Intrinsic Constituent Structure
		3.1.2 A Survey of Problems for Nominalisms
		3.1.3 Conferral and ‘Self-Exemplification’
	Notes
3B A Default Case for Tropes II: Realisms
	3.1 Something Is Not Like Nothing
	3.2 Concrete Properties
	3.3 No Extended Simplicity
	Notes
4 Ostrich Supertropestantivalism
	4.1 Concrete and Particular
		4.1.1 Tropes and Properties
		4.1.2 Tropes, Objects, and Exemplification
		4.1.3 Fundamentality, ‘Natures’, Individuation, and Sharing
	4.2 Ostrich Tropes
	4.3 Supertropestantivalism
	4.4 Proper Spatiotemporal Parts
	4.5 The Construction of Properties and Objects
	4.6 Sparseness and Abundance: Fusions, Determinables, Sortals, Relations, and Alien Properties
	Notes
5 The Need for a New Trope Bundle Theory
	5.1 The Need for a Bundling Mechanism
	5.2 Problems with Shrugging off the Many over One
	5.3 Problems for Mainstream Reduction: Co-Location, Mereology, and Co-Dependence
	5.4 Problems for Primitive Compresence
	Notes
6 Markedness Bundle Theory
	6.1 Markedness at Work I: A New Bundle Theory
	6.2 Tabs, Maps, and Strips
	6.3 Part, Whole, Local, Global
	6.4 Grout
	6.5 The Case for Markedness
	Notes
7 Priority Markedness
	7.1 The Need for a Modally Robust Theory of Fundamental Concreta
	7.2 Problems for Priority Atomism, Priority Monism, and Priority Collectivism
	7.3 Markedness at Work II: Fundamentality
		7.3.1 The Appeal of Topology
		7.3.2 Markedness Fundamentality
		7.3.3 Compatibility with the Metaphysical Possibilities of Unending Structures
	7.4 A Problem from Unending Topological Structure? Funk Debunked
	7.5 The Propriety of Markedness for Being Fundamental
	Notes
8 Markedness Plurdurantism
	8.1 A Brief Introduction to the Metaphysics of Persistence
		8.1.1 Persistence and the Philosophy of Time
		8.1.2 Theories of Temporary Intrinsics
	8.2 Problems for Endurantism, Stage Theory, and Perdurantism
		8.2.1 Problems for Endurantism(s)
		8.2.2 Problems for Stage Theory and Perdurantism
	8.3 Markedness at Work III: Persistence
	8.4 The Persistence of Markedness
	Notes
9 Markedness Panprotopsychism
	9.1 Physicalism, Russellian Monism, and Panprotopsychism
	9.2 Markedness at Work IV: Consciousness
	9.3 Magic Avoidance
	9.4 Ghosts and Demons
	Notes
References
Index