Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics

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Blackwell (2007)
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Theodore Sider
Rutgers University - New Brunswick
John Hawthorne
Australian Catholic University
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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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Temporal Parts.Theodore Sider
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Against Parthood.Theodore Sider - 2013 - Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 8:237–293.
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What is Presentism?Daniel Deasy - 2017 - Noûs 51 (2):378-397.
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