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The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics
Edited by Michael J. Loux and Dean W. Zimmerman
736 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-825024-1
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Hardback
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28 August 2003
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- The definitive reference work for all scholars and students
- Completely new contributions from a dream team of philosophers
- Comprehensive survey of all major topics
- Essays are lively, critical, and important contributions
The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.
The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. Twenty-four of the world's
most distinguished specialists provide brand-new essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the latest word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness. The Handbook's unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum.Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy
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Edited by Michael J. Loux, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and Dean W. Zimmerman, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey Contributors:
Thomas M. Crisp, Florida State University
Hartry Field, New York University
Kit Fine, New York University
Carl Ginet, Cornell University
Sally Haslanger, MIT
John Hawthorne, Rutgers University
Joshua Hoffman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jaegwon Kim, Brown University
Michael J. Loux, University of Notre Dame
E. J. Lowe, University of
Durham
Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University
Graham Nerlich, Adelaide University
Michael C. Rea, University of Notre Dame
Howard Robinson, Central European University
Gary S. Rosenkrantz, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Theodore Sider, Rutgers University
Peter Simons, Leeds University
Ernest Sosa, Brown University
Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Cornell University
Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder
Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame
Ted Warfield, University of Notre Dame
Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford
Dean W. Zimmerman, Rutgers University
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Introduction
I. Universals and Particulars1: Zoltan Gendler Szabo: Nominalism
2: Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz: Platonistic Theories of Universals
3: E. J. Lowe: Individuation
II. Existence and Identity4: John Hawthorne: Identity
5: Peter van Inwagen: Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities
III. Modality and Possible Worlds6: Kit Fine: The Reduction of Possiblia
7: Theodore Sider: Reductive Theories of Modality
IV. Time, Space-Time, and Persistence8: Thomas M. Crisp: Presentism
9: Michael C. Rea: Four-Dimensionalism
10: Graham Nerlich: Space-Time Substantivalism
11: Sally Haslanger: Persistence through Time
V. Events, Causation, and Physics12: Peter Simons: Events
13: Michael Tooley: Causation and Supervenience
14: Hartry Field: Causation in a Physical World
15: Tim Maudlin: Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics
VI. Persons and the Nature of Mind16: Dean W. Zimmerman: Material People
17: Howard Robinson: The Ontology of the Mental
18: Jaegwon Kim: Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction
VII. Freedom of the Will19: Carl Ginet: Libertarianism
20: Ted Warfield: Compatibilism
VIII. Anti-Realism and Vagueness21: Michael J. Loux: Dummett on Realism and Anti-Realism
22: Ernest Sosa: Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self
23: Timothy Williamson: Vagueness in Reality
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