Though nominalism is a major presupposition in academia and western society, R. Scott Smith shows that nominalism undermines all knowledge whatsoever. In light of the many clear examples of knowledge that we do have, nominalism should be replaced by a realist view of properties.

R. Scott Smith is Professor of Ethics and Christian Apologetics at Biola University's MA in Christian Apologetics program. He is the author of Truth and the New Kind of Christian (2005), Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality (2012), and In Search of Moral Knowledge (2014).

Introduction

Chapter 1: Tropes and Some Ontological Prerequisites for Knowledge

Chapter 2: Austere and Metalinguistic Nominalism, and Our Knowledge of Reality

Chapter 3: Nominalism and the History of Constructivism in Western Philosophy

Chapter 4: Nominalism and the Practice of Science

Chapter 5: Nominalism and Moral Knowledge

Chapter 6: Nominalism and Academic Religion

Chapter 7: Nominalism Across Other Academic Disciplines

Chapter 8: If Not Nominalism, Then What?