Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics

Name: Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics
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ISBN: 9781405112291

ISBN-10: 1405112298

ISBN-13: 9781405112291

Edition: 2008

Authors: Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, Dean W. Zimmerman

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Exploring the fundamentals in contemporary methaphysics in a series of 18 essays, this text offers readers the opportunity to observe leading philosophers engaging in head-to-head debate on cutting-edge metaphysical topics.

Book details

List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/3/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.70" wide x 9.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Notes on Contributors


Introduction



Abstract Entities



Abstract Entitie




There Are No Abstract Objects



Causation and Laws of Nature



Nailed to Hume's Cross?




Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism



Modality and Possible Worlds



Concrete Possible Worlds




Ersatz Possible Worlds



Personal Identity



People and Their Bodies




Persons, Bodies, and Human Beings



Time



The Privileged Present: Defending an "A-Theory" of Time




The Tenseless Theory of Time



Persistence



Temporal Parts




Three-Dimensionalism vs. Four-Dimensionalism



Free Will



Incompatibilism




Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and Impossibilism



Mereology



The Moon and Sixpence: A Defense of Mereological Universalism




Restricted Composition



Metaontology



Ontological Arguments: Interpretive Charity and Quantifier Variance




The Picture of Reality as an Amorphous Lump



Index