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Contemporary debates in metaphysics /

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140511228X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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1405112298 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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9781405112284 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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9781405112291 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Contemporary debates in metaphysics /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Malden, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Blackwell Pub.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 404 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

26 cm

Series Title

Contemporary debates in philosophy ;

ISSN of Series

10

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Abstract entities -- Abstract entities / Chris Swoyer -- There are no abstract objects / Cian Dorr -- Causation and laws of nature -- Nailed to Hume's cross? / John W. Carroll -- Causation and laws of nature : reductionism / Jonathan Schaffer -- Modality and possible worlds -- Concrete possible worlds / Phillip Bricker -- Ersatz possible worlds / Joseph Melia -- Personal identity -- People and their bodies / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Persons, bodies, and human beings / Derek Parfit -- Time -- The privileged present : defending an "a-theory" of time / Dean Zimmerman -- The tenseless theory of time / J.J.C. Smart -- Persistence -- Temporal parts / Theodore Sider -- Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism / John Hawthorne -- Free will -- Incompatibilism / Robert Kane -- Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism / Kadri Vihvelin -- Mereology -- The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism / James van Cleve -- Restricted composition / Ned Markosian -- Meteontology -- Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance / Eli Hirsch -- The picture of reality as an amorphous lump / Matti Eklund

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Metaphysics

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Hawthorne, John, (John P.)

Sider, Theodore

Zimmerman, Dean W

Date of Transaction

20080331164028.0

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[Book]

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