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Preface | |
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Introduction: What is Metaphysics? | |
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What are the most General Features of the World? | |
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Introduction | |
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What is the Relationship between an Individual and its Characteristics? | |
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Universals and Resemblances Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience | |
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The Elements of Being | |
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The Principle of Individuation: An Excerpt from Human Knowledge, its Scope and Limits | |
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Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory | |
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What is Time? What is Space? | |
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Time: an Excerpt from The Nature of Existence | |
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McTaggart's Arguments against the Reality of Time: An Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy | |
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The Notion of the Present | |
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The General Problem of Time and Change: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
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The Space-Time World: An Excerpt from Philosophy and Scientific Realism | |
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Topis, Soris, Noris: An Excerpt from The Existence of Space and Time | |
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Some Free Thinking about Time | |
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The Fourth Dimension: An Excerpt from The Ambidextrous Universe | |
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Incongruent Counterparts and Higher Dimensions | |
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Achilles and the Tortoise | |
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A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes: An Excerpt from Space, Time and Motion | |
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Grasping the Infinite | |
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The Paradoxes of Time Travel | |
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How do things Persist through Changes of Parts and Properties? | |
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Of Confused Subjects which are Equivalent to Two Subjects: An Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic | |
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Identity Through Time | |
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Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis | |
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Identity: an Excerpt From Quiddities | |
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In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to 'Survival and identity' | |
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Some Problems About Time | |
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The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics: An Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds | |
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Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism | |
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How do Causes Bring about their Effects? | |
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Constant Conjunction: an excerpt from A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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Efficient Cause and Active Power: An excerpt from Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind | |
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Psychological and Physical Causal Laws: An Excerpt from The Analysis of Mind | |
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Causality: an Excerpt from A Modern Introduction to Logic | |
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Causality and Determination | |
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What is our Place in the World? | |
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Introduction | |
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How is the Appearance of a Thing Related to the Thing that Appears? | |
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The Theory of Sensa: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
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Qualities: An Excerpt from Consciousness and Causality | |
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The Status of Appearances: An Excerpt from Theory of Knowledge, 1st edition | |
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What is the Relation Between Mind and Body? | |
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Which Physical Thing am I? An Excerpt From 'Is There a Mind Body Problem?' (Roderick M. Chisholm | |
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Personal Identity: a Materialist Account | |
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Dividend Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
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Body and Soul: An Excerpt from The Evolution of the Soul | |
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The Puzzle of Conscious Experience | |
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Is it Possible for us to Act Freely? | |
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Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable Without it | |
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Human Freedom and the Self | |
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The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom | |
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The Agent as Cause | |
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Is There Just One World? | |
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Introduction | |
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Speaking of Objects | |
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After Metaphysics | |