Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28038
Title: Fictional Possibilities Grounded in Foundational Nominalism
Contributor(s): Forrest, Peter  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2021-03
Early Online Version: 2020-02-06
DOI: 10.1007/s11406-020-00182-w
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28038
Abstract: David Armstrong in his A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility proposes that non-actual possibilities may be treated as fictions grounded in instantiated universals. In this paper, I first provide some objections to his theory. Then I make the case for Foundational Nominalism, the Armstrong inspired thesis that the whole of ontology supervenes on particulars described much as in the Quinean Nominalism that Armstrong rejected as an ontological ostrich. Finally, I argue that Foundational Nominalism permits a fictional theory of possibilities similar to Brian Skyrms’ Tractarian Nominalism.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Philosophia, 49(1), p. 1-16
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1574-9274
0048-3893
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 220399 Philosophy not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 500399 Philosophy not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280119 Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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