Ontological Nominalism and Analytic Philosophy： On the Possibility of Philosophizing whilst Dispensing with Universals  

作　　者：Hossein Dabbagh Soroush Dabbagh 

机构地区：[1]University of Oxford and Reading [2]University of Toronto

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2015年第2期93-99,共7页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：Most commentators use the term ＂modern philosophy＂ for the post-Descartes era--an era of unprecedented growth for the modern sciences and, especially the empirical sciences. Even assuming that the feud between the rationalists and the empiricists during this period yielded no other benefits, it was beneficial enough to turn ＂experience＂ into an important pillar of the acquisition of knowledge in the subsequent philosophy. It was this ＂experience-mindedness＂ that drove away the Aristotelian ＂essentialist＂ perspective and replaced it with ＂nominalism.＂ By describing the genesis and emergence of the ＂nominalist-empirical＂ perspective in analytic philosophy as one of the branches of the human sciences, this article strives to advance the claim that philosophical thinking continues to flourish in the absence of ＂realist thinking about universals＂ and that philosophizing does not fundamentally rest on universals.

关 键 词：ontological nominalism conceptual nominalism ESSENTIALISM 

分 类 号：N02[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学] TP18[自动化与计算机技术—控制理论与控制工程]