Publications

Anna-Sofia Maurin

2026-10-02

Scientific books (monographs)

2022   Properties, Cambridge University Elements in Metaphysics series (T. Tahko, ed.).

2002   If Tropes, Kluwer Academic Publishers (183 pp.)

Reviewed in e.g., Mind (J. Bacon 116.462 (2007): 459-462); Polish Journal of Philosophy (P. Rojek 1.1(2007): 151-154); Theoria (H. Hochberg 71.3(2005): 277-286); Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, (E. Funkhouser, http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1382) and Metaphysica (K. Trettin, 1(2004): 151-158).

Peer-reviewed scientific articles/book chapters (including peer-reviewed encyclopedia entries and bibliographical overviews)

Fc.                       “Properties”, in: Perspectives in Metaphysics, J. Barker (ed.), Routledge University Press.

Fc.                       (with Naomi Thompson) “No Grounds for Inheritance”, in: Epistemology of Grounding,  Y. Kappes & D. Aleksiev (eds.), Cambridge University Press.

2026                     (with Alexander Skiles, Naomi Thompson, Andrew Brenner, and Robin Stenwall)(first version published 2021), “Metaphysical Explanation”, in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E.N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (eds.), URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2026/entries/metaphysical-explanation/  

2025                     “Regress, Relation, and Explanation”, in: Objects and Properties: New Perspectives, A. Moran & C. Rossi (eds.), Oxford University Press, pp. 180-201.

2025                     “What’s Wrong with Global Cognitive Relativism”, Le Sens du Réel: Essais en l’Honneur de Claudine Tiercelin, Collège de France.  

2025                     “Hereditet”, Filosofisk Tidskrift, 46(2): 21-27.

2024                     “Trope-Relations”, in: The Routledge Handbook of Properties, A.R.J. Fisher & A.-S. Maurin (eds.), Routledge University Press.

2024                     (first version published 2013) “Tropes,” in: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E. N. Zalta & U. Nodelman (eds.), URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2024/entries/tropes/.  

2020                        “Egenskapsmystik”, Filosofisk tidskrift, 41(3): 15-21.

2019                     “A Van Inwagean Defense of Constitutionalism”, in: M. Szatkowski, ed., Quo Vadis Metaphysics?—Essays in Honour of Peter van Inwagen, De Gruyter, pp. 103-118.

2019                     “Particulars,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, J. Tallant (ed.), Routledge University Press.

2019                     “Grounding & Metaphysical Explanation: It’s Complicated,” Philosophical Studies, 176(6): 1573-1594.

2019                     (with A. Skiles) (first version published 2013) “Metametaphysics,” Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, D. Pritchard (ed.), Oxford University Press.

2016                     “Tropes: For and Against,” in: F. Calemi (ed.), Metaphysics and Scientific Realism: Essays in Honour of David Malet Armstrong, De Gruyter, pp. 85-103.

2015                     “States of Affairs and the Relation Regress,” in: G. Galluzzo and M. J. Loux (eds.), The Problem of Universals in Contemporary Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, pp. 195-214.

2014                     “Segelberg on Unity and Complexity,” in: Philosophy and Botany. Essays on Ivar Segelberg, H. Malmgren (ed.), Thales, pp. 36-54.

2013                     “Exemplification as Explanation”, Axiomathes, 23(2): 401-417.

2013                     “Infinite Regress Arguments”, in: Johanssonian Investigations, C. Svennerlind, J. Almäng, and R. Ingthorsson (eds.), Ontos Verlag, pp. 421-438.

2012                     “Bradley’s Regress,” Philosophy Compass, 7(11): 794-807.

2011                     “An Argument for the Existence of Tropes”, Erkenntnis, 74(1): 69-79.

2010                     “A World of Tropes”, in: Worldviews Science and Us: Studies of Analytical Metaphysics, R. Vanderbeeken (ed.), World Scientific Publishers, pp. 107-130.

2010                     “Trope Theory and the Bradley Regress”, Synthese, 175(3): 311-326.

2008                     “Does Ontology Matter?” in: Tropes, Universals, and the Philosophy of Mind: Essays at the Boundary of Ontology and Philosophical Psychology, S. Gozzano & F. Orilia (eds.), Ontos Verlag, pp. 31-55.

2008                     “The One over Many”, in: Problems from Armstrong, M. Keinänen & T. De Mey (eds.), Acta Philosophica Fennica, pp. 1-8.

2005                     “Same but Different”, Metaphysica, 6(1): 131-146.

2000                     “Om enhet i mångfald,” Filosofisk tidskrift, 4: 3-11.

1998 "Davidson on Properties", Dialectica, 52(1): 13-22.

Non-Peer-Reviewed scientific articles

2026                       “Virtus Relativa”, in: Contemporary Perspectives and Historical Dimensions, J. Forsman & M. Slavov (eds.), Tampere University Press.

2024                       (with A. R. J. Fisher) “Introduction: The Importance of Properties”, in: The Routledge Handbook of Properties, A.R.J. Fisher & A.-S. Maurin (eds.), Routledge University Press, pp. 1-10.

2024                       “Eklund vs. Bradley: Regress, Relation, Explanation”, in: Festschrift for Matti Eklund, A. Stokke (ed.), Uppsala University Press.

2017                       “Filosofi och (annan) vetenskap,” Filosofisk tidskrift, 3, 1-10 (in Swedish).

2010                       “Svar på svar,” Filosofisk tidskrift, 10(1): 47-48.

2009                       “Russells regress: en replik,” Filosofisk tidskrift, 3: 44-54.

2007                       “Infinite Regress: Virtue of Vice?” in: Hommage à Wlodek, T. Rønnow-Rasmussen,  B. Petersson, J. Josefsson & D. Egonsson (eds.), URL: https://www.fil.lu.se/hommageawlodek/site/abstra.htm.

2005                       (with I. Brinck) “Revisionary Metaphysics. An interview with D. M. Armstrong,” Theoria, 71(1): 3-19.

2005                        “(För) enkla lösningar i en komplicerad värld,” in Risk och det levande mänskliga, ed. by A.-S. Maurin, I. Brinck, J. Persson & S. Halldén, Nora: Nya Doxa, 151-180 (in Swedish).

2005                       (with N.-E. Sahlin) “Some Ontological Speculations: Ramsey on Particulars, Universals and Facts,” in Ramsey’s Ontology, ed. by N-E Sahlin, Metaphysica, special issue 3(3): 7-28.

2001                       (with J. Persson) “Realistic Metaphysics. An interview with D. H. Mellor,” Theoria, 67(2): 96-113.

Reviews

2018                       Review of The Elements and Patterns of Being—Essays in Metaphysics, ed. by A. R. J. Fisher, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. URL:  https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-elements-and-patterns-of-being-essays-in-metaphysics/..

2013                            Review of Tropes—Properties, Objects and Mental Causation by D. Ehring, Journal of Philosophy 110(2): 111-115.

Edited Volumes

2024                       (co-ed. with A.R.J. Fisher) The Routledge Handbook of Properties, Routledge University Press.

2017                             (co-ed. with S. Radovic) Filosofisk Tidskrift, special issue 3.

2007                             (co-ed. with D. Egonsson & J. Persson) Filosofins Nytta, special issue of Insikt och Handling, 22.

2005                             (co-ed. with I. Brinck, J. Persson & S. Halldén) Risk och det levande mänskliga, Nya Doxa.