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- Title
Supertropestantivalism.
- Authors
Giberman, Daniel
- Abstract
According to the identity version of spacetime supersubstantivalism, material objects are numerically identical to spacetime regions. While the view has been commended for its parsimony and concordance with physics, it has not properly been assessed in light of the metaphysics of properties. The present essay fills this void by discerning several subspecies of identity supersubstantivalism, corresponding to various property ontologies. Finding them all wanting, the essay develops and defends a novel brand of supersubstantivalism based on the trope ontology. On this view, here dubbed 'supertropestantivalism', regions are pluralities of geometrically and topologically alike tropes, some of which bundle together as material objects. The resulting picture is not itself an identity version of supersubstantivalism, but it retains the originally attractive features of the identity version while avoiding the shortcomings of competing ontologies.
- Subjects
SPACETIME; NONEXISTENT objects (Philosophy); TROPES (Philosophy); ONTOLOGY; METAPHYSICS
- Publication
Philosophical Quarterly, 2021, Vol 71, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0031-8094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pq/pqaa080