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Contemporary debates in metaphysics
- Title
- Contemporary debates in metaphysics / edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman.
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 404 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary debates in philosophy ; 10
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Abstract entities -- Abstract entities / Chris Swoyer -- There are no abstract objects / Cian Dorr -- Causation and laws of nature -- Nailed to Hume's cross? / John W. Carroll -- Causation and laws of nature : reductionism / Jonathan Schaffer -- Modality and possible worlds -- Concrete possible worlds / Phillip Bricker -- Ersatz possible worlds / Joseph Melia -- Personal identity -- People and their bodies / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Persons, bodies, and human beings / Derek Parfit -- Time -- The privileged present : defending an "a-theory" of time / Dean Zimmerman -- The tenseless theory of time / J.J.C. Smart -- Persistence -- Temporal parts / Theodore Sider -- Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism / John Hawthorne -- Free will -- Incompatibilism / Robert Kane -- Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism / Kadri Vihvelin -- Mereology -- The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism / James van Cleve -- Restricted composition / Ned Markosian -- Meteontology -- Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance / Eli Hirsch -- The picture of reality as an amorphous lump / Matti Eklund.
- Call Number
- JFF 08-405
- ISBN
- 9781405112284 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 140511228X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781405112291 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1405112298 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007019836
- OCLC
- 132681443
- vendor
- Title
- Contemporary debates in metaphysics / edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman.
- Imprint
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
- Series
- Contemporary debates in philosophy ; 10
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Sider, Theodore.Hawthorne, John (John P.)Zimmerman, Dean W.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 08-405