Why Realists Need Tropes

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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Why Societies Need

Why Robots Need Maps

A large group of autonomous, mobile entities e.g. robots initially placed at some arbitrary node of the graph has to jointly visit all nodes (not necessarily all edges) and finally return to the initial position. The graph is not known in advance (an online setting) and robots have to traverse an edge in order to discover new parts (edges) of the graph. The team can locally exchange information...

Tropes and Other Things

Our day-today experience of the world regularly brings us into contact with middle-sized objects such as apples, dogs, and other human beings. These objects possess observable properties, properties that are available or accessible to the unaided senses, such as redness and roundness, as well as properties that are not so available, such as chemical ones. Both of these kinds of properties serve...

The Individuation of Tropes

A trope is a particular property: the redness of a rose, the roundness of the moon. It is generally supposed that tropes are individuated by primitive quantity: this redness, that roundness. I argue that the trope theorist is far better served by individuating tropes by spatiotemporal relation: here redness, there roundness. In short, tropes are not this-suches but here-suches. I generally favo...