CAN BUNDLE THEORY EXPLAIN INDIVIDUATION?

• Authors: Schmidt M.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Bundle theory reduces particulars to bundles of properties. Bundle theorists have been working to explain individuation within an ontology of repeatable properties, but the outcomes are not satisfactory. Even the trope approach toward properties is not capable of establishing individuation. This article argues that bundle theorists are wrong in searching for individuators within the bundles of properties. Rather, individuation should be established within ontologically more fundamental level of events. Events, with their spatial and temporal character, enable us to individuate the bundles of properties involved and this is one of the reasons for the superiority of bundle theory to other competitive theories of substance.

Keywords

EN

BUNDLE OF PROPERTIES; BUNDLE THEORY; INDIVIDUATION; SUBSTANCE'S COMPETITIVE THEORIES

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 62-71
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Schmidt M.

• M. Schmidt, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA00882104