Metaphysics An Anthology

Name: Metaphysics An Anthology
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ISBN: 9781444331011

ISBN-10: 1444331019

ISBN-13: 9781444331011

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Jaekwon Kim, Daniel Z. Korman, Ernest Sosa

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Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on the metaphysics of material objects and the philosophy of time.One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available - now updated and expanded Offers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysics Includes new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects, as well as readings on the topics of fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity,…

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List price: $85.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 8/19/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 736
Size: 7.20" wide x 10.00" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 3.168
Language: English



Source Acknowledgments


Preface



Ontology



On What There Is




Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology




Holes




Beyond Being and Nonbeing




Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?




If We Postulated Fictional Objects, What Would They Be?




On What Grounds What




Identity



The Identity of Indiscernibles




Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity




Identity and Necessity




Contingent Identity




Can There Be Vague Objects?




Vague Identity




Modality



Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions




Actualism and Thisness




A Philosopher's Paradise




Possible Worlds




Modal Fictionalism




Essence and Modality




Properties



Natural Kinds




Causality and Properties




The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars




New Work for a Theory of Universals




Universals as Attributes




Causation



On the Notion of Cause




Causes and Conditions




Causal Relations .




Causality and Determination




Causation




Causal Connections




Causation: Reductionism Versus Realism




Two Concepts of Causation




Persistence



Identity through Time




Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis




Parthood and Identity Across Time




Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects




The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics




Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics




All the World's a Stage




Persons



Persons and their Pasts




The Self and the Future




Personal Identity




Survival and Identity




Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism




The Ontological Status of Persons




An Argument for Animalism




Objects



When are Objects Parts?




Many, But Almost One




Existential Relativity




The Argument from Vagueness




Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism




Against Revisionary Ontology




Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness