Tag: Nominalism
Biologist Advocates Biology Without Species; What Could Go Wrong?
So what is real, according to Brent Mishler? Only phylogeny — the tree of evolutionary descent.
The “Virus That Infected Philosophy”
Egnor explains, “Nominalism is the view that universals exist only as concepts in the mind, but not in reality.”
Redness Reconsidered: Materialism, Universals, and Abstract Objects of Thought
The question about the material/immaterial nature of abstract thought is crucial to the debate over the plausibility of materialism.
Why Aristotle and Aquinas?
Here’s a fair question: Why do I prattle on so much about scholastic philosophy? Of what genuine relevance is it to intelligent design?