Ontology, Identity, and Modality Essays in Metaphysics

Name: Ontology, Identity, and Modality Essays in Metaphysics
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ISBN: 9780521795487

ISBN-10: 0521795486

ISBN-13: 9780521795487

Edition: 2001

Authors: Peter Van Inwagen, Jonathan Dancy, John Haldane, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson

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This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagens essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in their field. They range widely across such topics as Quines philosophy of quantification, the ontology of fiction, the part-whole relation, the theory of temporal parts, and human knowledge of modal truths. In addition, van Inwagen considers the question as to whether the psychological continuity theory of personal identity is compatible with materialism, and defends the thesis that possible states of affairs are abstract objects, in opposition to David Lewiss extreme modal realism. A specially-written introduction completes the collection, which…

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List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.58" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.924

Gilbert Harman is Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and the author of Explaining Value and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy and Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind.



Introduction



Ontology



Meta-ontology



Why I don't understand substitutional quantification



Creatures of fiction



Why is there anything at all?



Identity:



The doctrine of arbitrary undetached parts



Composition as identity



Four-dimensional objects



Temporal parts and identity across time



Materialism and the psychological-continuity account of personal identity



Modality



Indexicality and actuality



Plantinga on trans-world identity



Two concepts of possible worlds



Modal epistemology


Index