Keith Campbell (philosopher)
- Keith Campbell (philosopher)
Keith Campbell (b. 1938) is an Australian philosopher working in metaphysics.
With D.M. Armstrong, Campbell is one of the founders of so called "Australian metaphysics" (see Australian materialism) and, within it, of a variety of trope theory. He also has a distinctive view of concrete and abstract objects: the former can exist by themselves, and the latter are incapable of independent existence.
He refuses, following F. Ramsey, the necessity of choice between Realism and Nominalism in the problem of universals, because they both share "a false presupposition being that any quality or relation must be a universal" (Campbell 1991, preface).
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The famous separation between the University of Sydney's Departments of Traditional and Modern Philosophy and of General Philosophy is attributed to his organizing the proposal in 1973 [ [http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/sydq.html The Sydney Philosophy Disturbances] ] . He was a senior lecturer in the "Traditional and Modern" one [ [http://www3.undpress.nd.edu/exec/dispatch.php?s=title,P00031 University of Notre Dame Press -- "Body and Mind"] ] but is now an emeritus professor in the recombined Department of Philosophy (part of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry).
Campbell is known as a co-editor of "Ontology, Causality, and Mind: Essays in Honour of D.M. Armstrong", and as author of "Body and Mind".
Bibliography
* "Body and Mind" 1970, (2nd edition, 1984)
* "Metaphysics: An introduction", (The Dickenson series in philosophy) by Keith Campbell, 1976
* "Abstract Particulars (Philosophical Theory)", Blackwell Publishers, 1991
* "Ontology, Causality, and Mind: Essays in Honour of D.M. Armstrong", Keith Campbell, John Bacon, and Lloyd Reinhardt (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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