Contemporary debates in metaphysics
edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean W. Zimmerman
Contemporary debates in metaphysics
المؤلف
edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean W. Zimmermanالناشر
Blackwell Pub.طبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
العنوان واسم المؤلف
Contemporary debates in metaphysics / edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean W. Zimmermanبيانات النشر
مالدن : Blackwell Pub.، 2008مالمواصفات الشكلية
ix, 404 p.: ill.; 25 cm.الموضوع
Metaphysicsمسلسل
(Contemporary debates in philosophy؛ )اللغة
انگلیسیملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references and index.المحتويات
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