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

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Theodore Sider
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
John Hawthorne
Australian Catholic University
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Against Parthood.Theodore Sider - 2013 - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 8:237–293.
Ontological realism.Theodore Sider - 2009 - In David Chalmers, David Manley & Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics: New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press. pp. 384--423.
The Moving Spotlight Theory.Daniel Deasy - 2015 - Philosophical Studies 172 (8):2073-2089.
We Are Not Human Beings.Derek Parfit - 2012 - Philosophy 87 (1):5-28.
What is Presentism?Daniel Deasy - 2017 - Noûs 51 (2):378-397.

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