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Metaphysics Contemporary Readings

by: Hales, Steven D.

Metaphysics Contemporary Readings

by: Hales, Steven D.

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9780534551452
ISBN 10:
0534551459
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 02/09/1999
Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Enthusiastically reviewed and praised for its introductions and selections, METAPHYSICS: CONTEMPORARY READINGS is a comprehensive collection of readings with an ontological emphasis.

Editor's Preface
I
EXISTENCE
Michael Burke, Introduction to Existence
Nicholas Rescher, On Explaining Existence
Derek Parfit, Why is Reality as It Is? Robert Nozick, Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Bibliography of Further Readings
II
REALISM/ANTI-REALISM
Simon Blackburn, Introduction to the Realism Debates
Michael Dummett, Realism and Anti-Realism
Hilary Putnam, Why There Isn't a Ready-Made World
Ernest Sosa, Putnam's Pragmatic Realism
Michael Devitt, A Naturalistic Defense of Realism
Michael Devitt, Postscript to A Naturalistic Defense of Realism
Bibliography of Further Readings
III
TRUTH
Frederick Schmitt, Introduction to Truth
Alfred Tarski, The Semantic Conception of Truth
Susan Haack, The Pragmatist Theory of Truth
Nicholas Rescher, Truth as Ideal Coherence
Paul Horwich, The Disquotational Conception of Truth
Marian David, Truth as Correspondence
Bibliography of Further Readings
IV
ABSTRACTA: PROPERTIES, NUMBERS, PROPOSITIONS
Bob Hale, Introduction to Abstracta
W

Quine, On What There Is
Rudolf Carnap, Empiricism, Semanitcs, and Ontology
Alonzo Church, On Carnap's Analysis of Statements of Assertion and Belief
W

Quine, Meaning and Truth
Paul Benacerraf, What Numbers Could Not Be
David M
Armstrong, Universals as Attributes
Bibliography of Further Readings
V
SECONDARY QUALITIES
Edward Averill, Introduction to Secondary Qualities
David M
Armstrong, The Secondary Qualities
Paul A
Boghossian and David Velleman, Colour as a Secondary Quality
C

Hardin, Color and Illusion
Bibliography of Further Readings
VI
CONCRETA: EVENTS
Jonathan Bennett, Introduction to Events
Donald Davidson, The Individuation of Events
Jaegwon Kim, Events as Property Exemplifications
Lawrence Lombard, Events
Bibliography of Further Readings
VII
CONCRETA: SUBSTANCE
E

Lowe, Introduction to Substance
James Van Cleve, Three Versions of the Bundle Theory
Gary Rosenkrantz and Joshua Hoffman, The Independence Criterion of Substance
Peter Simons, Particulars in Particular Clothing: Three Trope Theories of Substance
Bibliography of Further Readings
VIII
DEPENDENT PARTICULARS: HOLES, BOUNDARIES, AND SURFACES
Scott H
Hestevold, Introduction to Dependent Particulars
David Lewis and Stephanie Lewis, Holes
Roberto Casati and Achille C
Varzi
Immaterial Bodies
Roderick Chisholm, Boundaries as Dependent Particulars
Avrum Stroll, Two Conceptions of Surfaces
Bibliography of Further Readings
IX
MEROLOGY
Peter Simons, Introduction to Mereology
W

Quine, Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis
Mark Heller, Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensioned Objects
Peter Van Inwagen, Four-Dimensional Objects
James Van Cleve, Mereological Essentialism, Mereological Conjunctivism, and Identity Through Time
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FURTHER READINGS

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