Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 2

• The second volume in a brand new series
• The latest and best research in this core field of philosophy
• Edited by a dynamic and highly respected young scholar
• Covers a very wide spectrum of topics
• All papers published here for the first time

Readership: Scholars and students of metaphysics and related fields of philosophy.

Edited by Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University, New Jersey

I. SYMPOSIUM: PROPERTY DUALISM
1: Ned Block: Max Black's Objection to Mind-Body Identity
2: John Perry: Mary and Max and Jack and Ned
3: Stephen L. White: A Posterioiri Identities and the Requirements of Rationality
II. THE OPEN FUTURE
4: Trenton Merricks: Goodbye Growing Block
5: Eli Hirsch: Rashi's View of the Open Future: Determinateness and Bivalience
6: Peter Forrest: General Facts, Physical Necessity, and the Metaphysics of Time
III. ISSUES IN ONTOLOGY
7: Thomas Hofweber: Inexpressible Properties and Propositions
8: Michael J. Loux: Aristotle's Constituent Ontology
9: Phillip Bricker: The Relation Between General and Particular: Entailment vs. Supervenience
10: John Hawthorne: Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity
IV. METAPHYSICS AND THEISM
11: Brian Leftow: God and the Problem of Universals
12: Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower: A Theistic Argument Against Platonism (And in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity)
13: Hud Hudson: Beautiful Evils