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Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the related application of mereological calculi to the analysis of predication), and the particular problems posed by relational predication and the nature of particulars. The essays explore aspects of the history of the issues and attempt to deal with the issues and with challenges to the distinctions that give rise to them. They continue the debates stemming from the revival of metaphysics rooted in Frege's realism, the Austrian tradition of Brentano-Husserl-Meinong, and the early 20th century revolt against idealism embodied in writings of Moore and Russell and culminating in Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Herbert Hochberg (Austin, Texas, USA), Kevin Mulligan (Geneva, Switzerland)

Absurd Claims

Lars Gustafsson (Austin, Texas USA)

Relations, Properties and Particulars

Herbert Hochberg (Austin, Texas USA)

Predication Theory: Classical vs Modern

Ignacio Angelelli (Austin, Texas USA)

Bareness, as in '"Bare" Particulars': Its Ubiquity

Fred Wilson (Toronto, Canada)

Objects as Hierarchical Structures: A Comprehensive Ontology

Donald W. Mertz (St. Louis, Missouri USA)

The Ontological Problem of Order

Erwin Tegtmeier (Mannheim, Germany)

On the Transitivity of the Parthood Relations

Ingvar Johansson (Umea, Sweden and Leipzig, Germany)

Warum es die Früher-Später Beziehung nicht gibt

Christian Kanzian (Innsbruck, Austria)

Tropes and Relations

Käthe Trettin (Frankfurt, Germany)

Once More: Bradleyan Regresses

Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg, Germany)