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Metaphysics : An Anthology

ISBN: 9781444331011 | 1444331019
Edition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 9/6/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects. One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available - now updated and expanded Offers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysics Includes new sections on onto... MORE
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Source Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Prefacep. xii
Ontologyp. 1
On What There Isp. 7
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontologyp. 16
Holesp. 27
Beyond Being and Nonbeingp. 32
Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?p. 40
If We Postulated Fictional Objects, What Would They Be?p. 59
On What Grounds Whatp. 73
Identityp. 97
The Identity of Indiscerniblesp. 103
Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identityp. 109
Identity and Necessityp. 122
Contingent Identityp. 141
Can There Be Vague Objects?p. 158
Vague Identityp. 159
Modalityp. 167
Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctionsp. 173
Actualism and Thisnessp. 187
A Philosopher's Paradisep. 208
Possible Worldsp. 230
Modal Fictionalismp. 236
Essence and Modalityp. 255
Propertiesp. 267
Natural Kindsp. 271
Causality and Propertiesp. 281
The Metaphysic of Abstract Particularsp. 298
New Work for a Theory of Universalsp. 307
Universals as Attributesp. 322
Causationp. 345
On the Notion of Causep. 351
Causes and Conditionsp. 362
Causal Relations .p. 378
Causality and Determinationp. 386
Causationp. 397
Causal Connectionsp. 405
Causation: Reductionism Versus Realismp. 419
Two Concepts of Causationp. 432
Persistencep. 455
Identity through Timep. 461
Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasisp. 472
Parthood and Identity Across Timep. 480
Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objectsp. 492
The Problem of Temporary Intrinsicsp. 504
Endurance and Temporary Intrinsicsp. 506
All the World's a Stagep. 511
Personsp. 527
Persons and their Pastsp. 533
The Self and the Futurep. 552
Personal Identityp. 562
Survival and Identityp. 575
Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualismp. 588
The Ontological Status of Personsp. 597
An Argument for Animalismp. 610
Objectsp. 621
When are Objects Parts?p. 627
Many, But Almost Onep. 642
Existential Relativityp. 652
The Argument from Vaguenessp. 661
Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativismp. 673
Against Revisionary Ontologyp. 686
Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrarinessp. 703
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Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University Daniel Z. Korman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign. Ernest Sosa taught from 1964 to 2007 at Brown University, and is currently Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.


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