Metaphysics
By: edited by John Hawthorne.
Contributors: Hawthorne, John
Series: 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 (Supplement)
Notes: "A supplement to Noûs."--Cover.

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