The Oxford handbook of metaphysics/

Other Authors: Loux, Michael J., Zimmerman, Dean W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Metaphysics Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, c2003, repr. 2010
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Nominalism / Zoltan Gendler Szabo
  • Platonistic theories of universals / Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz
  • Individuation / E.J. Lowe
  • Identity / John Hawthorne
  • Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities / Peter van Inwagen
  • The problem of possibilia / Kit Fine
  • Reductive theories of modality / Theodore Sider
  • Presentism / Thomas M. Crisp
  • Four-dimensionalism / Michael C. Rea
  • Space-time substantivalism / Graham Nerlich
  • Persistence through time / Sally Haslanger
  • Events / Peter Simons
  • Causation and supervenience / Michael Tooley
  • Causation in a physical world / Hartry Field
  • Distilling metaphysics from quantum physics / Tim Maudlin
  • Material people / Dean W. Zimmerman
  • The ontology of the mental / Howard Robinson
  • Supervenience, emergence, realization, reduction / Jaegwon Kim
  • Libertarianism / Carl Ginet
  • Compatibilism and incompatibilism : some arguments / Ted Warfield
  • Realism and anti-realism : Dummett's challenge / Michael J. Loux
  • Ontological and conceptual relativity and the self / Ernest Sosa
  • Vagueness in reality / Timothy Williamson.