課程資訊
課程名稱
專題研究:共性問題研究
Special Study: Research on the Problem of Universals 
開課學期
105-2 
授課對象
文學院  哲學研究所  
授課教師
鄧敦民 
課號
Phl7864 
課程識別碼
124EM5930 
班次
 
學分
1.0 
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期一5(12:20~13:10) 
上課地點
哲研討室二 
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本課程以英語授課。請先徵得授課教師及申請者同意後,始得選課。
限碩士班以上 且 限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限:3人 
 
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課程概述

共性問題是一個由來已久的形上學問題。當代對這個問題的爭論仍在進行,共性實在論者與唯名論者各自提出了若干論證進行討論,並系統化的發展了各自的哲學論述。本課程藉由閱讀包含D. M. Armstrong在內的形上學家之相關專書與論文,對其中論證與其背後的哲學系統做更深入的分析與討論。
 

課程目標
本課程目標在:
a. 釐清實在論與反實在論的各方立場與其主要論證
b. 掌握當代實在論和唯名論者發展出的哲學系統
c. 對各方論證或者立場發展進一步的批判或辯護
 
課程要求
每週閱讀指定內容,並寫作討論短文,定期討論。 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
指定閱讀
Armstrong, D. M., 1989, Universals: An Opinionated Introduction, Boulder: Westview Press.
Armstrong, D. M., 1997, A World of States of Affairs, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 
參考書目
Armstrong, David M. (1974). ‘Infnite Regress Arguments and the Problem of Universals’. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 52(3):191-201.
Armstrong, David M. (1975). ‘Towards a Theory of Properties: Work in Progress on the Problem of Universals’. Philosophy, 50(192):145-155.
Armstrong, D.M. (1980), ‘Against “Ostrich Nominalism”: A Reply to Devitt’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 61: 440-49.
Armstrong, D.M. (1986), ‘In Defence of Structural Universals’, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64: 85-88.
Armstrong, David M. (1989). A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bradley, F.H. Appearance and Reality, Routledge,1893
Campbell, K. (1981), ‘The Metaphysics of Abstract Particulars’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Foundations of Analytic Philosophy, 6: 477-78.
Devitt, M. (1980), ‘Ostrich Nominalism or Mirage Realism’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 61: 433-39.
Frege, G. ‘Function and Concept’. Reprinted in M. Beaney ed., The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Frege, G. ‘On Concept and Object’. Reprinted in M. Beaney ed., The Frege Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Lewis, D. (1983), ‘New Work for a Theory of Universals’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 61: 343-77.
Lewis, D. (1986), ‘Against Structural Universals’, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64: 25-46.
MacBride, F. ‘Universals: The Contemporary Debate’, in R. Le Poidevin et al., eds., The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. 276-85.
MacBride, F. (2005), ‘The Particular-Universal Distinction: A Dogma of Metaphysics?’ Mind, 114: 565-614.
Maurin, A.-S. ‘Bradley and the relation regress’. In If Tropes Kluwer, 2002.
Mellor, D.H. and Oliver, A., eds. Properties, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Mellor, D.H. ‘Properties and Predicates’, in Bacon, Campbell and Reinhardt, eds., Ontology, Causality and Mind: Essay in Honour of D.M. Armstrong, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Moore, G. E. (1923), ‘Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular?’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. vol. 3, pp. 95-113.
Quine, W.V. (1948), ‘On What There Is’, Review of Metaphysics, 2: 21-28.
Ramsey, P.F. (1925), ‘Universals’, Mind, 34: 401-417
Russell, B. The Problems of Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1912.
Shoemaker, S. ‘Causality and Properties’, in Peter van Inwagen, ed., Time and Cause, D. Reidel, 1980.
Stout, G. F. (1923), ‘Are the Characteristics of Particular Things Universal or Particular?’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. vol. 3, pp. 114-22.
Strawson, P.F. Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics, London: Methuen, 1959.
Williams, D.C. (1953), ‘On the Elements of Being’, Review of Metaphysics, 7: 3-18.
 
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No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
每週閱讀作業 
40% 
 
2. 
期末論文 
60% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/20  Universals: An Opinionated Introduction ch1 The Problem,
ch2 Primitive Natural Classes
 
第2週
2/27  第2週 Universals: An Opinionated Introduction ch3 Resemblance Nominalism, ch4 Particulars as Bundles of Universals 
第3週
3/06  Universals: An Opinionated Introduction ch5 Universals as Attributes 
第4週
3/13  Universals: An Opinionated Introduction ch6 Tropes, ch7 Summing up 
第5週
3/20  A World of States of Affairs ch1 Introduction, ch2 Some Preliminary Doctrines 
第6週
3/27  A World of States of Affairs ch3 Properties I 
第7週
4/03  A World of States of Affairs ch4 Properties II 
第8週
4/10  A World of States of Affairs ch5 Powers and Dispositions 
第9週
4/17  A World of States of Affairs ch6 Relations 
第10週
4/24  A World of States of Affairs ch7 Particulars 
第11週
5/01  A World of States of Affairs ch8 States of Affairs 
第12週
5/08  A World of States of Affairs ch9 Independence 
第13週
5/15  A World of States of Affairs ch10 Modality 
第14週
5/22  A World of States of Affairs ch11 Number 
第15週
5/29  A World of States of Affairs ch12 Classes 
第16週
6/05  A World of States of Affairs ch13 Totality States of Affairs, ch14 Singular Causation 
第17週
6/12  A World of States of Affairs ch15 Laws I, ch16 Laws II 
第18週
6/19  A World of States of Affairs ch17 The Unity of The World