Arguing About Metaphysics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9780415958264
Subjects: Metaphysics
First sentence: The field of metaphysics and its characteristic puzzles occupy a central place both in the history of philosophy and on the current philosophical landscape.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: General Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: On What There Is
pagenum: 7; title: Introduction to Part 1
pagenum: 9; label: 1
title: On What There Is (Willard Van Orman Quine)
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: Nominalist Things (Henry Fitzgerald)
pagenum: 22; label: 3
title: A Theory of Properties (Peter van Inwagen)
pagenum: 24; label: 4
title: A World of States of Affairs (D. M. Armstrong)
pagenum: 45; label: 5
title: Holes (David Lewis and Stephanie Lewis)
pagenum: 54; label: 6
title: On What There Is Not (Richard Routley)
pagenum: 59; label: 7
title: Truth in Fiction (David Lewis)
pagenum: 78; label: 8
title: I Do Not Exist (Peter Unger)
pagenum: 94; label: 2
title: Time and Time Travel
pagenum: 107; title: Introduction to Part 2
pagenum: 109; label: 9
title: The Time Traveller's Speech (H. G. Wells)
pagenum: 113; label: 10
title: Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman)
pagenum: 116; label: 11
title: Thank Goodness That's Over (A. N. Prior)
pagenum: 122; label: 12
title: A Defense of Presentism (Ned Markosian)
pagenum: 127; label: 13
title: The Metaphysics of Now (Paul Horwich)
pagenum: 151; label: 14
title: The Myth of Passage (Donald C. Williams)
pagenum: 167; label: 15
title: "—All You Zombies—" (Robert Heinlein)
pagenum: 178; label: 16
title: Absolutely Inflexible (Robert Silverberg)
pagenum: 186; label: 17
title: The Paradoxes of Time Travel (David Lewis)
pagenum: 193; label: 18
title: No End in Sight: Causal Loops in PHilosophy, Physics and Fiction (Richard Hanley)
pagenum: 203; label: 3
title: Change and Identity
pagenum: 225; title: Introduction to Part 3
pagenum: 227; label: 19
title: Problems About Change: Selections from the Writings of Parmenides and David Lews (Parmenides and David Lewis)
pagenum: 231; label: 20
title: How to Reidentify the Ship of Theseus (Brian Smart)
pagenum: 236; label: 21
title: Identity and Temporal Parts (Roderick Chisholm)
pagenum: 239; label: 22
title: Temporal Parts of Four Dimensional Objects (Mark Heller)
pagenum: 264; label: 23
title: Dust (Greg Egan)
pagenum: 272; label: 24
title: Second Person, Present Tense (Daryl Gregory)
pagenum: 292; label: 25
title: Personal Identity (Derek Parfit)
pagenum: 305; label: 26
title: An Argument for Animalism (Eric T. Olson)
pagenum: 320; label: 4
title: Freedom
pagenum: 333; title: Introduction to Part 4
pagenum: 335; label: 27
title: The Satyr (Stephen Robinett)
pagenum: 337; label: 28
title: What's Expected of Us (Ted Chiang)
pagenum: 347; label: 29
title: The Story of Osmo (Richard Taylor)
pagenum: 349; label: 30
title: Fatalism (Peter van Inwagen)
pagenum: 351; label: 31
title: Two Concepts of Freedom (William L. Rowe)
pagenum: 372; label: 32
title: Freedom Within Reason (Susan Wolf)
pagenum: 387; label: 33
title: Determinism Al Dente (Derk Pereboom)
pagenum: 399; label: 34
title: The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom (Peter van Inwagen)
pagenum: 420; label: 35
title: Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility (Harry G. Frankfurt)
pagenum: 428; label: 5
title: Worlds and Worldmaking
pagenum: 435; title: Introduction to Part 5
pagenum: 437; label: 36
title: Parallel Universes (Max Tegmark)
pagenum: 441; label: 37
title: World Ensemble, or Design (John Leslie)
pagenum: 451; label: 38
title: The Tree of Life: Agency and Immorality in a Metaphysics Inspired by Quantum Theory (Peter Forrest)
pagenum: 469; label: 39
title: A Philosopher's Paradise (David Lewis)
pagenum: 483; label: 40
title: Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism (Alvin Plantinga)
pagenum: 518; label: 41
title: Words, Works, Worlds (Nelson Goodman)
pagenum: 545; title: Index
pagenum: 557