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9IntroductionIn Marking the Centenary of Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-20. 2021.In this Introduction, Alexander and his work are outlined in its historical context with an account of his place in the history of philosophy. The background and motivation of the work is given along with a description of the organisation and content of the chapters that follow. Justification is also given for the inclusion of three posthumous papers by Alexander and how these posthumous papers relate to the newly commissioned essays.
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3Grace A. de Laguna’s Theory of Universals: A Powers Ontology of Properties and ModalityAustralasian Philosophical Review 6 (1): 39-48. 2022.In this paper I examine Grace A. de Laguna’s theory of universals in its historical context and in relation to contemporary debates in analytic metaphysics. I explain the central features of her theory, arguing that her theory should be classified as a form of immanent realism and as a powers ontology. I then show in what ways her theory affords a theory of modality in terms of potentialities and discuss some of its consequences along the way.
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1Introduction: the importance of propertiesIn A. R. J. Fisher & Anna-Sofia Maurin (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Properties, Routledge. 2024.
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