Contemporary debates in metaphysics
edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean W. Zimmerman
Contemporary debates in metaphysics
نویسنده
edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean W. Zimmermanناشر
Blackwell Pub.نسخه 1
فهرست
شناسنامه
عنوان و نام پدیدآور
Contemporary debates in metaphysics / edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean W. Zimmermanمشخصات نشر
مالدن : Blackwell Pub.، 2008ممشخصات ظاهری
ix, 404 p.: ill.; 25 cm.موضوع
Metaphysicsفروست
(Contemporary debates in philosophy؛ )زبان
انگلیسییادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.مندرجات
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