عنوان

Contemporary debates in metaphysics

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

English

Title Proper

Contemporary debates in metaphysics

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. : ill.

Other Title Information

Contemporary debates in philosophy ;01

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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

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

Entry Element

، Metaphysics

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AU Sider, Theodore

AU Hawthorne, John)John P.(

AU Zimmerman, Dean W

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