Contemporary debates in metaphysics
By: edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman
Contributors: Sider, Theodore; Hawthorne, John; Zimmerman, Dean W
Series: Contemporary debates in philosophy -- 10
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781405112284; 9781405112291
Subjects: Metaphysics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Abstract entities; title: Abstract entities / Chris Swoyer; title: There are no abstract objects / Cian Dorr; title: Causation and laws of nature; title: Nailed to Hume's cross? / John W. Carroll; title: Causation and laws of nature : reductionism / Jonathan Schaffer; title: Modality and possible worlds; title: Concrete possible worlds / Phillip Bricker; title: Ersatz possible worlds / Joseph Melia; title: Personal identity; title: People and their bodies / Judith Jarvis Thomson; title: Persons, bodies, and human beings / Derek Parfit; title: Time; title: The privileged present : defending an "a-theory" of time / Dean Zimmerman; title: The tenseless theory of time / J.J.C. Smart; title: Persistence; title: Temporal parts / Theodore Sider; title: Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism / John Hawthorne; title: Free will; title: Incompatibilism / Robert Kane; title: Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism / Kadri Vihvelin; title: Mereology; title: The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism / James van Cleve; title: Restricted composition / Ned Markosian; title: Meteontology; title: Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance / Eli Hirsch; title: The picture of reality as an amorphous lump / Matti Eklund