The Oxford handbook of metaphysics
By: edited by Michael J. Loux and Dean W. Zimmerman.
Contributors: Loux, Michael J.; Zimmerman, Dean W.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 724
Subjects: Metaphysics.
Other titles: Handbook of metaphysics; Metaphysics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nominalism / Zoltán Gendler Szabó; title: Platonistic theories of universals / Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz; title: Individuation / E.J. Lowe; title: Identity / John Hawthorne; title: Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities / Peter van Inwagen; title: The problem of possibilia / Kit Fine; title: Reductive theories of modality / Theodore Sider; title: Presentism / Thomas M. Crisp; title: Four-dimensionalism / Michael C. Rea; title: Space-time substantivalism / Graham Nerlich; title: Persistence through time / Sally Haslanger; title: Events / Peter Simons; title: Causation and supervenience / Michael Tooley; title: Causation in a physical world / Hartry Field; title: Distilling metaphysics from quantum physics / Tim Maudlin; title: Material people / Dean W. Zimmerman; title: The ontology of the mental / Howard Robinson; title: Supervenience, emergence, realization, reduction / Jaegwon Kim; title: Libertarianism / Carl Ginet; title: Compatibilism and incompatibilism : some arguments / Ted Warfield; title: Realism and anti-realism : Dummett's challenge / Michael J. Loux; title: Ontological and conceptual relativity and the self / Ernest Sosa; title: Vagueness in reality / Timothy Williamson.