Nominalism
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Professor Spillane teaches philosophy in the hope that it will be applied to management and psychology in the hope that it will not. Following eight years with BP and Philips, he joined the School of Behavioural Sciences at Macquarie University in 1972 and accepted a full-time position at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in 1976. From 1989 to 1991 he was Dean of MGSM. In the 1970s Professor Spillane worked with American psychologist, Dr. Albert Ellis and has worked, since the 1980s, with renowned psychiatrist, Professor Thomas Szasz. He practiced psychotherapy in Sydney for 25 years, working especially on occupational stress, RSI and ADHD.
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Nominalism is a metaphysical view in philosophy according to which general or abstract terms and predicates exist, while universals or abstract objects , which are sometimes thought to correspond to these terms, do not exist. [ 1 ] Thus, there are at least two main versions of nominalism. One version denies the existence of universals—things that can be instantiated or exemplified by many particular things (e.g. strength, humanity). The other version specifically denies the existence of abstract objects—objects that do not exist in space and time. [ 2 ] Most nominalists have held that only physical particulars in space and time are real, and that universals exist only post res , that is, subsequent to particular things. [ 3 ] However, some versions of nominalism hold that some particulars are abstract entities (e.g. numbers), while others are concrete entities—entities that do exist in space and time (e.g. tables, chairs).