Contemporary debates in metaphysics

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Malden, MA: Blackwell (2008)
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This anthology introduces advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students to today's debates in metaphysics. The book consists of essays by contemporary metaphysicians, and all but one appear here for the first time. For each of nine topics, there are two essays, one "pro-" and one "con-".

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BD95.C66 2008

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9781405112284   9781405112291   9781118712320   1405112298   140511228X

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Abstract entities.Chris Swoyer
Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism.Kadri Vihvelin
Concrete possible worlds.Phillip Bricker
Incompatibilism.Robert Kane
People and their bodies.Judith Jarvis Thomson
Persons, bodies, and human beings.Derek Parfit
Temporal parts.Theodore Sider
The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism.James van Cleve
The picture of reality as an amorphous lump.Matti Eklund
There are no abstract objects.Cian Dorr
There are no abstract objects.Cian Dorr
Nailed to Hume's cross?  (pages 67--81)John W. Carroll
Nailed to Hume's cross?  (pages 67--81)John W. Carroll
Causation and laws of nature : Reductionism.  (pages 82-107)Jonathan Schaffer
Causation and laws of nature : reductionism.  (pages 82-107)Jonathan Schaffer
Concrete possible worlds.  (pages 111--134)Phillip Bricker
Ersatz possible worlds.  (pages 135--51)Joseph Melia
The privileged present : Defending an "a-theory" of time.  (pages 211--225)Dean Zimmerman
The tenseless theory of time.  (pages 226--38)J. J. C. Smart
Temporal Parts.  (pages 241--262)Theodore Sider
Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism.  (pages 263--282)John Hawthorne
Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism.  (pages 303--318)Kadri Vihvelin
Restricted composition.  (pages 341--63)Ned Markosian
Restricted composition.  (pages 341--63)Ned Markosian
Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance.  (pages 367--81)Eli Hirsch
The picture of reality as an amorphous lump.  (pages 382--96)Matti Eklund

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Theodore Sider
Rutgers - New Brunswick
John Hawthorne
University of Southern California
Dean Zimmerman
Rutgers University - New Brunswick

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Against Parthood.Theodore Sider - 2013 - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 8:237–293.
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