Research Catalog

Title

Oxford studies in metaphysics / edited by Dean W. Zimmerman.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004-

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zimmerman, Dean W.
• Bennett, Karen, 1971-

Description

volumes; 22 cm

Summary

'Oxford Studies in Metaphysics' is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.

Alternative Title

Studies in metaphysics

Subject

• Metaphysics

Note

• v. 6- edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• volume 1. -- Tensed quantifiers / David Lewis -- Symposium : defining presentism -- On presentism and triviality / Thomas M. Crisp -- Presentism, triviality, and the varieties of tensism / Peter Ludlow -- Reply to Ludlow / Thomas M. Crisp -- A defense of presentism / Ned Markosian -- Presentism and truthmaking / Simon Keller -- A theory of properties / Peter van Inwagen -- How do particulars stand to universals? / D.M. Armstrong -- Non-symmetric relations / Cian Dorr -- The mental problems of the many / Peter Unger -- Properties and powers / John Heil -- The intrinsic character of causation / Ned Hall -- Recombination, causal constraints, and humean supervenience : an argument for temporal parts? / Ryan Wasserman, John Hawthorne, and Mark Scala.
• volume 2. -- Max Black's Objection to Mind-Body Identity / Ned Block -- Mary and Max and Jack and Ned / John Perry -- A Posterioiri Identities and the Requirements of Rationality / Stephen L. White -- Goodbye Growing Block / Trenton Merricks -- Rashi's View of the Open Future : Indeterminateness and Bivalience / Eli Hirsch -- General Facts, Physical Necessity, and the Metaphysics of Time / Peter Forrest -- Inexpressible Properties and Propositions / Thomas Hofweber -- Aristotle's Constituent Ontology / Michael J. Loux -- The Relation Between General and Particula r: Entailment vs. Supervenience / Phillip Bricker -- Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity / John Hawthorne -- God and the Problem of Universals / Brian Leftow -- A Theistic Argument Against Platonism (and in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity) / Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower -- Beautiful Evils / Hud Hudson.
• volume 3. -- Human Beings, Human Animals, and Mentalistic Survival / Denis Robinson -- Human beings revisited : my body is not an animal / Mark Johnston -- Worlds, Pluriverses, and Minds / Mark Heller -- Analyzing Modality / Michael Jubien -- Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence / Matthew McGrath -- Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence / Cody Gilmore -- Theories of Location / Josh Parsons -- Brutal Simples / Kris McDaniel -- Contact and Continuity / William Kilborn -- Metaphysical Compatibilism's Appropriation of Frankfurt / Ted A. Warfield.
• volume 4. -- Nominalism / Willard Van Orman Quine -- Quine and Tarski on Nominalism / Paolo Mancosu -- Cats, Dogs, and So On / John P. Burgess -- Quine's Lecture on Nominalism From the Perspective of a Nominalist / Charles Chihara -- A World of Concrete Particulars / Joseph Melia -- Quine's 1946 Lecture on Nominalism / Peter van Inwagen -- Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism / Stephan Leuenberger -- Truthmakers and Predication / Daniel Nolan -- On Locating Composite Objects / Jacek Brzozowski -- Gunk, Topology and Measure / Frank Arntzenius -- The Structure of Gunk : Adventures in the Ontology of Space / Jeffrey Sanford Russell -- Beware of the Blob : Cautions for Would-Be Metaphysicians / Mark Wilson.
• volume 5. -- Changing the Past / Peter van Inwagen -- Can a Soufflé Rise Twice? Van Inwagen's Irresponsible Time-Travellers / Peter Forrest -- Van Inwagen on Time-Travel and Changing the Past / Hud Hudson and Ryan Wasserman -- Location and Perdurance / Antony Eagle -- Coinciding Objects and Duration Properties : Reply to Eagle / Cody Gilmore -- Duration in Relativistic Spacetime / Antony Eagle -- Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness / Daniel Z. Korman -- Many as One / Thomas Sattig -- Extrinsic Temporal Metrics / Bradford Skow -- Parthood and Multi-Location / Maureen Donnelly -- Constructing a Theory of Sounds / Casey O'Callaghan -- Hearing Sounds / Roger Scruton -- What Sounds Are / Matthew Nudds -- Sounds and Temporality / Jonathan Cohen.
• volume 6. -- Ontological Nihilism / Jason Turner -- Truthmaking for Presentists / Ross P. Cameron -- A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy / Elizabeth Barnes and J. Robert G. Williams -- Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vague Existence / Richard Woodward -- Mereological Harmony / Gabriel Uzquiano -- Parthood and Location / Raul Saucedo -- Externalism and Brain Transplants / Rory Madden.
• volume 7. -- Possibility Relative to a Sortal / Delia Graff Fara -- Reflections on Counterpart Theory / Allen Hazen -- All Things Must Pass Away / Joshua Spencer -- Absolute Generality Reconsidered / Agustin Rayo -- Goodbye, Humean Supervenience / Troy Cross -- "There sweep great general principles which all the laws seem to follow" / Marc Lange -- Relativized Metaphysical Modality / Adam Murray and Jessica Wilson -- Coincidence Through Thick and Thin / Sydney Shoemaker -- The Real Truth about the Unreal Future / Rachael Briggs and Graeme A. Forbes -- Presentism and Distributional Properties / Jonathan Tallant and David Ingram.
• volume 8. -- Naturalness / Cian Dorr and John Hawthorne -- Fundamental Properties of Fundamental Properties / Maya Eddon -- Absolutism vs. Comparativism about Quantity / Shamik Dasgupta -- Modal Quantification without Worlds / Bill Dunaway -- Slots in Universals / Cody Gilmore -- Against Parthood / Theodore Sider -- Composition as General Identity / Aaron J. Cotnoir -- Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity / Katherine Hawley -- Living on the Brink, or Welcome Back, Growing Block! / Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz -- Fighting the Zombie of the Growing Salami / David Braddon-Mitchell -- Changing Truthmakers : Reply to Tallant and Ingram / Ross P. Cameron.
• volume 9. -- On infinite size / Bruno Whittle -- Whittle's assault on Cantor's paradise / Vann McGee -- Reply to Vann McGee's 'Whittle's assault on Cantor's paradise' / Bruno Whittle -- Problems with plurals / Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen -- The unreasonable effectiveness of abstract metaphysics / Daniel Nolan -- Paraphrase, semantics and ontology / John A. Keller -- Analyticity and ontology / Louis deRosset -- Naturalizing metaphysics with the help of cognitive science / Alvin I. Goldman -- Multiple constitution / Nicholas K. Jones -- Half-hearted Humeanism / Aaron Segal -- the coarse-grainedness of grounding / Kathirn Koslicki -- A universe of explanations / Ghislain Guigon -- Return of the living dead : reply to Braddon-Mitchell / Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz.
• volume 10. -- Teleological dispositions / Nick Kroll -- Indirect directness / Jennifer McKitrick -- Dispositions without teleology /D avid Manley and Ryan Wasserman -- Devious stipulations / John Harden -- Stipulations and requirements : reply to Horden /L ouis deRosset -- Colors as primitive dispositions /H agit Benbaji -- Are there ineffable aspects of reality? / Thomos Hofweber -- The metaphysics of quantities and their dimensions / Bradford Skow -- Vague existence / Alessandro Torza -- Ersatz counterparts / Richard Woodward -- The principle of sufficient reason and probability / Alexander Pruss -- Grounding ground / Jon Erling Litland.
• volume 11. -- A new approach to the relational-substantival debate / Jill North -- Relative locations / Andrew Bacon -- A passage theory of time / Martin A. Lipman -- Fragmenting the wave function / Jonathan Simon -- Possible patterns / Jeffrey Sanford Russell and John Hawthorne -- Plural slot theory / T. Scott Dixon -- Local qualities / Elizabeth Miller -- Vague naturalness as ersatz metaphysical vagueness / Rohan Sud -- Against 'Against "Against vague existence" ' / Roberto Loss

Call Number

JFL 05-54

ISBN

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OCLC

55966642

Title

Oxford studies in metaphysics / edited by Dean W. Zimmerman.

Imprint

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004-

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Zimmerman, Dean W.

Bennett, Karen, 1971-

Other Form:

Online version: Oxford studies in metaphysics. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004- (OCoLC)647059722

Research Call Number

JFL 05-54