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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ground Rules | |
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| The Province of Metaphysics | |
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| Substance and Property | |
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| Relations | |
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| Truthmaking | |
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| The Big Picture | |
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| Substance | |
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| Substances as Property Bearers | |
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| Substance Situated | |
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| Substance and Property | |
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| Simple Substances | |
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| Properties and Properties by Courtesy | |
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| Emergent Substances | |
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| Real Emergence | |
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| Back to Basics | |
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| Substance Stressed | |
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| Ontological Dependence | |
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| Spatial and Temporal Parts | |
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| Complexity 'All the Way Down' | |
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| Infinite Divisibility | |
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| An Infinity of Substances | |
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| The Weirdness of Actual Infinities | |
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| From the Weirdness of Infinity to Quantum Weirdness | |
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| Quantum Statistics | |
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| Taking Stock | |
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| Properties | |
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| Substances, Properties, Truthmakers | |
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| Properties as Qualities | |
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| 'Categorical Properties' | |
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| Properties as Powers | |
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| 'Scientiphicalism' | |
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| Idealism and the'Mystery of the Physical' | |
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| Powers without Qualities | |
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| Purely Relational Universes | |
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| Scientific Abstraction | |
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| Reciprocity | |
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| Contingency | |
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| Qualities Unleashed | |
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| Primary and Secondary Qualities | |
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| Powerful Qualities | |
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| Universals | |
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| Comme il Faut Philosophy | |
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| Historical Reminder | |
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| Terminological Interlude | |
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| Similarity and Identity | |
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| Costs and Benefits | |
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| Williams on Universals | |
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| 'Painless Realism' | |
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| Modes and Tropes | |
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| Santayana to Lewis via Williams | |
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| Williams's Santayana | |
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| Causing | |
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| The Received View | |
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| The Causal Nexus | |
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| Powers, Dispositions | |
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| Liabilities of the Received View | |
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| Causing and Indeterminacy | |
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| Absences, Preventers, Antidotes, Blockers, Inhibitors, Finks | |
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| Is Causality Fundamental? | |
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| The Horse Before the Cart | |
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| Relations | |
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| Towards an Ontology of Relations | |
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| The Truthmaker Gap | |
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| Relations: An Opinionated History | |
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| The Ontology of Relations | |
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| Take Relations … Please | |
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| Truthmaking | |
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| Why You Should Care | |
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| Truthmaking as Entailment | |
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| 'Truth Supervenes on Being' | |
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| Truth Bearers | |
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| Truthmaking and Quantification | |
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| Truth and Existence | |
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| A Truthmaker for Every Truth? | |
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| Logic and Mathematics | |
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| Non-Trivial Necessities | |
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| Truthmaking and Serious Ontology | |
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| Reduction, Blinds, and Essences | |
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| Big Pictures | |
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| Non-Reductive Physicalism: Background | |
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| Davidson: First Impressions | |
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| Davidson: Beyond First Impressions | |
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| Fodor's Anti-Reductionism | |
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| Boyd on Reduction and Natural Kinds | |
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| Similarity in the Special Sciences | |
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| Essence | |
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| A Universe without Essences | |
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| Historical Caveat | |
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| Mind and Mentality | |
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| Philosophical Puzzlement | |
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| Philosophical Fashion | |
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| The 'Mental' and the 'Physical' | |
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| Property Dualism | |
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| Metaphysical Infelicities | |
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| Back to the Drawing Board | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| Conscious Experience | |
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| Investigating Conscious Experiences | |
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| Representationalism | |
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| 'Diaphanous' Experiences | |
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| Experiential Qualities | |
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| Could Experiences Really Be 'Brain Processes'? | |
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| Manufacturing Qualities | |
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| Qualities of Experiences | |
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| Conscious Thought | |
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| Conscious Thinking | |
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| Thinking and Speaking | |
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| Davidson on Higher-Order Thought | |
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| Bermudez's Argument | |
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| Thoughts and their Expression | |
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| Thought | |
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| Images, Sentential and Otherwise | |
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| Proto-Language | |
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| Non-Conscious Thought | |
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| Language in Its Place | |
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| The Ontological Turn | |
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| Ontological Convergence | |
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| Bottom-Up Ontology | |
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| Serious Ontology | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |