There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect that a certain particular is such and such, e.g. propositions like 'this rose is red'. Others have interpreted it as a problem about the ontological commitments of such propositions or a problem about what those propositions mean.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraI 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 error.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraImperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraLeibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if an agent A acts freely when choosing X, then A's choosing X cannot be necessary. But there are some elements in his philosophy that seem to make contingency impossible.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraThose 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-PereyraThe difference between resemblance nominalism and class nominalism is that the former, but not the latter, brings in resemblance to account for the truthmakers of the propositions in question.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-PereyraI would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra