The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complet…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

By arguing that the bundle theory does not entail and is not committed in any way to the principle of identity of indiscernibles, I have thereby defe…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational rol…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, sp…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

A truthmaker is an entity in virtue of which the proposition it makes true is true. And it is a necessary condition of being a truthmaker (though not…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an …

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

In my view the bundle theorist should say that when a bundle is located somewhere, there is an 'instance' of the bundle there. The instance is entire…

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra