Contemporary debates in metaphysics

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sider, Theodore (-), Hawthorne, John P., Zimmerman, Dean W.
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell 2008
Colección:Contemporary debates in philosophy
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abstract entities
  • Abstract entities / Chris Swoyer
  • There are no abstract objects / Cian Dorr
  • Causation and laws of nature
  • Nailed to Hume's cross? / John W. Carroll
  • Causation and laws of nature: reductionism / Jonathan Schaffer
  • Modality and possible worlds
  • Concrete possible worlds / Phillip Bricker
  • Ersatz possible worlds / Joseph Melia
  • Personal identity
  • People and their bodies / Judith Jarvis Thomson
  • Persons, bodies, and human beings / Derek Parfit
  • Time
  • The privileged present: defending an a-theory of time / Dean Zimmerman
  • The tenseless theory of time / J.J.C. Smart
  • Persistence
  • Temporal parts / Theodore Sider
  • Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism / John Hawthorne
  • Free will
  • Incompatibilism / Robert Kane
  • Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism / Kadri Vihvelin
  • Mereology
  • The moon and sixpence: a defense of mereological universalism / James van Cleve
  • Restricted composition / Ned Markosian
  • Meteontology
  • Ontological arguments: interpretive charity and quantifier variance / Eli Hirsch
  • The picture of reality as an amorphous lump / Matti Eklund