Identity -- Locations / with Theodore Sider -- Plenitude, convention, and ontology -- Recombination, causal constraints, and humean supervenience : an argument for temporal parts? / with Ryan Wasserman and Mark Scala -- Three-dimensionalism -- Motion and plenitude -- Gunk and continuous variation / with Frank Arntzenius -- Vagueness and the mind of God -- Epistemicism and semantic plasticity -- Causal structuralism -- Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics -- Determinism de re -- Why humeans are out of their minds -- Chance and counterfactuals -- What would teleological causation be? / with Daniel Nolan -- Before-effect and Zeno causality.
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Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.