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Hobbes, Universal Names, and Nominalism

In Stefano Di Bella & Tad M. Schmaltz (eds.), The Problem of Universals in Early Modern Philosophy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2017)

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  1. Ockham's Theory of Terms, Part I of the Summa Logicae.William Ockham - 1974 - Notre Dame, IN, USA: University of Notre Dame Press.
    William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism -- the school of thought that denies that universals have any reality apart from the individual things signified by the universal or general term. Ockham's Summa Logicae was intended as a basic text in philosophy, but its originality and scope encompass his whole system of philosophy. Yet the paucity of English translations and the structural complexity of (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Thinking and Experience.H. H. Price - 1953 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 144:285-288.
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  • (1 other version)Philosophical papers and letters.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz & Leroy E. Loemker - 1956 - Chicago,: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Leroy E. Loemker.
    The selections contained in these volumes from the papers and letters of Leibniz are intended to serve the student in two ways: first, by providing a more adequate and balanced conception of the full range and penetration of Leibniz's creative intellectual powers; second, by inviting a fresher approach to his intellectual growth and a clearer perception of the internal strains in his thinking, through a chronological arrangement. Much confusion has arisen in the past through a neglect of the develop ment (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Thinking and Experience.H. H. Price - 1954 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 5 (17):76-80.
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  • Science Without Numbers: A Defence of Nominalism.Michael Lockwood - 1982 - Philosophical Quarterly 32 (128):281-283.
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  • (2 other versions)Hobbes.John Laird - 1935 - Mind 44 (173):75-84.
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  • Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?Ian Hacking - 1975 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by (...)
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  • (1 other version)Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and Wallis.Douglas M. Jesseph - 1999 - University of Chicago Press.
    Hobbes and Wallis's "battle of the books" illuminates the intimate relationship between science and crucial seventeenth-century debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of God.
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  • (1 other version)Resemblance nominalism: a solution to the problem of universals.Gonzalo Rodríguez Pereyra - 2002 - New York: Clarendon Press.
    Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra offers a fresh philosophical account of properties. How is it that two different things (such as two red roses) can share the same property (redness)? According to resemblance nominalism, things have their properties in virtue of resembling other things. This unfashionable view is championed with clarity and rigor.
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  • Hobbes, Signification, and Insignificant Names.Stewart Duncan - 2011 - Hobbes Studies 24 (2):158-178.
    The notion of signification is an important part of Hobbes's philosophy of language. It also has broader relevance, as Hobbes argues that key terms used by his opponents are insignificant. However Hobbes's talk about names' signification is puzzling, as he appears to have advocated conflicting views. This paper argues that Hobbes endorsed two different views of names' signification in two different contexts. When stating his theoretical views about signification, Hobbes claimed that names signify ideas. Elsewhere he talked as if words (...)
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  • Leibniz on Hobbes’s Materialism.Stewart Duncan - 2010 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 41 (1):11-18.
    I consider Leibniz's thoughts about Hobbes's materialism, focusing on his less-discussed later thoughts about the topic. Leibniz understood Hobbes to have argued for his materialism from his imagistic theory of ideas. Leibniz offered several criticisms of this argument and the resulting materialism itself. Several of these criticisms occur in texts in which Leibniz was engaging with the generation of British philosophers after Hobbes. Of particular interest is Leibniz's correspondence with Damaris Masham. Leibniz may have been trying to communicate with Locke, (...)
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  • Science Without Numbers: A Defence of Nominalism.Hartry H. Field - 1980 - Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press.
    Science Without Numbers caused a stir in 1980, with its bold nominalist approach to the philosophy of mathematics and science. It has been unavailable for twenty years and is now reissued in a revised edition with a substantial new preface presenting the author's current views and responses to the issues raised in subsequent debate.
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  • Toland, Leibniz, and Active Matter.Stewart Duncan - 2013 - Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 6:249-78.
    In the early years of the eighteenth century Leibniz had several interactions with John Toland. These included, from 1702 to 1704, discussions of materialism. Those discussions culminated with the consideration of Toland's 1704 Letters to Serena, where Toland argued that matter is necessarily active. In this paper I argue for two main theses about this exchange and its consequences for our wider understanding. The first is that, despite many claims that Toland was at the time of Letters to Serena a (...)
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  • The philosophical writings of Descartes.René Descartes - 1984 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Volumes I and II provided a completely new translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. Volume III contains 207 of Descartes' letters, over half of which have previously not been translated into English. It incorporates, in its entirety, Anthony Kenny's celebrated translation of selected philosophical letters, first published in 1970. In conjunction with Volumes I and II it is designed to meet the widespread demand for a comprehensive, authoritative and accurate edition (...)
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  • Hobbes's Materialism in the Early 1640s.Stewart Duncan - 2005 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (3):437 – 448.
    I argue that Hobbes isn't really a materialist in the early 1640s (in, e.g., the Third Objections to Descartes's Meditations). That is, he doesn't assert that bodies are the only substances. However, he does think that bodies are the only substances we can think about using imagistic ideas.
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  • Leibniz and Hobbes on Arbitrary Truth.Martha Brandt Bolton - 1977 - Philosophy Research Archives 3:242-273.
    Leibniz repeatedly daims to refute "Hobbes' doctrine of arbitrary truth". I argue against several recent expositors of Hobbes that Hobbes' view comes to nothing more scandalous than "nominalism" about kind terms. Although some have recognized that it is this thesis which Leibniz claims to refute, his argument has not been correctly understood. I maintain that the argument rests upon Leibniz' theory of signs and his account of concepts. In brief, Leibniz argues that concepts have structures which correspond to structures of (...)
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  • Why does Language Matter to Philosophy?Louis E. Loeb - 1977 - Philosophical Review 86 (3):437.
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  • (1 other version)Aspects of Hobbes.Noel Malcolm - 2002 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    Noel Malcolm, one of the world's leading experts on Thomas Hobbes, presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. Malcolm offers a succinct introduction to Hobbes's life and thought, as a foundation for his discussion of such topics as his political philosophy, his theory of international relations, the development of his mechanistic world-view, and his subversive Biblical criticism. Several of the essays pay special attention (...)
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  • Universals, essences, and abstract entities.Martha Bolton - 1998 - In Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--178.
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  • (1 other version)Philosophical Papers and Letters.Martha Kneale - 1957 - Philosophical Review 66 (4):574.
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  • Aspects of Hobbes.[author unknown] - 2003 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 65 (4):752-752.
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  • (1 other version)Thinking and Experience. [REVIEW]Lewis White Beck - 1953 - Journal of Philosophy 50 (18):558-561.
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  • (2 other versions)Hobbes. [REVIEW]S. P. L. & John Laird - 1934 - Journal of Philosophy 31 (20):551.
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  • Hobbes.John Laird - 1934 - New York,: Russell & Russell.
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  • Semantics and mental language.Claude Panaccio - 1999 - In Paul Vincent Spade (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 53--75.
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  • Hobbes.J. M. Brown - 1957 - Philosophical Review 66 (4):570.
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  • Nominalism, Abstraction, and Generality in Hobbes.G. K. Callaghan - 2001 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 18 (1):37 - 55.
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  • (1 other version)Hobbes.Richard Peters - 1957 - Science and Society 21 (3):284-286.
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  • Ist Thomas Hobbes Ultranominalist gewesen?Wolfgang Hübener - 1977 - Studia Leibnitiana 9 (1):77 - 100.
    Leibniz' formula 'plusquam nominalis' is not applicable to Hobbes' theory of truth. Nor do his remarks on the relationship between thought and reality or between nomenclature and reality lead to ultranominalism. That would be the case only in his new definition of the relationship between name and concept; and in his thesis 'there is nothing universal but names' there is indeed a rejection of the Ockhamistic tradition of realistic conceptualism' (Boehner). Hobbes, however, does not succeed in constructing his logic without (...)
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  • (2 other versions)Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?Ian Hacking - 1975 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 43 (1):198-199.
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  • Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - 1967 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 23 (4):500-501.
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  • (1 other version)Ockham's Theory of Terms. Part I of the "Summa Logicae".Michael J. Loux & Ockham - 1978 - Critica 10 (29):131-134.
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  • Hobbes's system of ideas.John W. N. Watkins - 1965 - London: [Hutchinson.
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  • (1 other version)Le discours mental selon Hobbes.Martine Pécharman - 1992 - Archives de Philosophie 55 (4):553-573.
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  • (1 other version)Aspects of Hobbes.Noel Malcolm - 2002 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not only succinct introductions to Hobbes 's life and thought, but also path-breaking studies of many different aspects of his political philosophy, his scientific and religious theories, his relations with his contemporaries, the sources of his ideas, the printing history of his works, and his influence on European thought.
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  • Science without numbers, A Defence of Nominalism.Hartry Field - 1980 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 171 (4):502-503.
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  • (2 other versions)Thinking and Experience.H. H. Price - 1953 - Philosophy 29 (108):70-77.
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  • Hobbes's System of Ideas.J. W. N. Watkins & Keith C. Brown - 1967 - Philosophy 42 (160):177-181.
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  • (1 other version)Hobbes.Richard Peters - 1958 - Philosophy 33 (125):172-175.
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  • (1 other version)Empirisme, nominalisme et matérialisme chez Hobbes.Yves-Charles Zarka - 1985 - Archives de Philosophie 48 (2):177.
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