Metaphysics
By: edited by John Hawthorne
Series: Philosophical perspectives -- v. 20; Philosophical perspectives -- 20
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Metaphysics; Philosophy
Other titles: Noûs (Detroit, Mich.)
Notes: "A supplement to Noûs."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Infinity, relativity and smoothness  -- Frank Arntzenius; title: A definition of necessity  -- George Bealer; title: Absolute actuality and the plurality of worlds  -- Philip Bricker; title: Two modal-Isms: fictionalism and ersatzism  -- Berit Brogaard; title: Neo-Fregean ontology  -- Matti Eklund; title: What are sets and what are they for?  -- Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley; title: Relativistic persistence  -- Ian Gibson & Oliver Pooley; title: Where in the relativistic world are we?  -- Cody Gilmore; title: Counterfactuals and the analysis of necessity  -- Boris Kment; title: Modal realism  -- Kris McDaniel; title: In defense of essentialism  -- L. A. Paul; title: Failures to act and failures of additivity  -- Carolina Sartorio; title: 'Bare particulars'  -- Theodore Sider; title: Counting across times  -- Zoltán Gendler Szabó; title: Receptacles  -- Gabriel Uzquiano; title: Names for relations  -- Peter van Inwagen; title: The asymmetric magnets problem  -- Brain Weatherson; title: Illusions of gunk -- J. R. G. Williams.