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Title

Metaphysics : contemporary readings / edited by Michael J. Loux.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Additional Authors

Loux, Michael J.

Description

xiv, 646 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy.

Subject

• Metaphysics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Universals -- The Problem of Universals -- 1. "The World of Universals" / Bertrand Russell -- 2. "Universals and Resemblances" / H. H. Price -- 3. "On What There Is" / W. V. Quine -- 4. "The Elements of Being" / D. C. Williams -- 5. "Universals as Attributes" / David Armstrong -- Pt. II. Particulars -- The Ontological Structure of Concrete Particulars -- 6. "The Identity of Indiscernibles" / Max Black -- 7. "Bare Particulars" / Edwin B. Allaire -- 8. "Three Versions of the Bundle Theory" / James Van Cleve -- 9. "A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory" / Albert Casullo -- Pt. III. Possible Worlds -- Modality and Possible Worlds -- 10. "Possible Worlds" / David Lewis -- 11. "Actualism and Possible Worlds" / Alvin Plantinga -- 12. "Counterparts or Double Lives?" / David Lewis -- 13. "Identity and Necessity" / Saul Kripke -- Pt. IV. Causation -- Cause and Effect -- 14. Selections from Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature / David Hume -- 15. "Cause" / A. C. Ewing -- 16. "Causality and Determination" / G. E. M. Anscombe -- 17. "Causes and Conditions" / J. L. Mackie -- 18. "Causation" / David Lewis -- Pt. V. Time -- Time: The A-Theory and the B-Theory -- 19. "Time" / J. M. E. McTaggart -- 20. "Ostensible Temporality" / C. D. Broad -- 21. "Time and Eternity" / Richard Taylor -- 22. "The Notion of the Present" / A. N. Prior -- 23. "The Space-Time World" / J. J. C. Smart -- 24. "The Need for Tense" / D. H. Mellor -- Pt. VI. Persistence Through Time -- Endurantism and Perdurantism -- 25. "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects" / Mark Heller -- 26. "Endurance and Indiscernibility" / Trenton Merricks -- 27. "Personal Identity" / Derek Parfit -- 28. "Survival and Identity" / David Lewis -- 29. "Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory" / Richard Swinburne -- Pt. VII. Realism and Anti-Realism -- Realism and Anti-Realism -- 30. "Realism" / Michael Dummett -- 31. "Ontological Relativity" / W. V. Quine -- 32. "A Problem about Reference" / Hilary Putnam -- 33. "Objectivity" / Peter Van Inwagen.

ISBN

• 9780415962377 (hardcover)
• 0415962374 (hardcover)
• 9780415962384 (pbk.)
• 0415962382

LCCN

• 2008007502
• 99821939086

OCLC

• ocn212375851
• SCSB-5436123

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries