• Part and whole, again / Karen Bennett
• Is there a humean account of quantities? / Phillip Bricker
• Real definitions / Fabrice Correia
• Constitutive explanation / Shamik Dasgupta
• Naive metaphysics / Kit Fine
• Free will and ultimate explanation / Boris Kment
• Copredication and property inheritance / David Liebesman and Ofra Magidor
• Normative accounts of fundamentality / Kris McDaniel
• Anything I can do (with respect to truthmaking), you can do better (or just as well): truthmaking and non-presentist dynamism / Kristie Miller
• Phenomenal feel as process / L.A. Paul
• How to be a substantivalist without getting shifty about it / Zee R. Perry
• The world is the totality of facts, not of things / Agustín Rayo
• Ground by law / Gideon Rosen
• Laws for metaphysical explanation / Jonathan Schaffer
• The naïve conception of properties / Benjamin Schnieder
• Personal volatility / Meghan Sullivan
• Metaphysics and conceptual negotiation / Amie L. Thomasson
• Ideology in a desert landscape / Alessandro Torza
• To have and to hold / Tatjana von Solodkoff and Richard Woodward
• Sophisticated modal primitivism / Tobias Wilsch.

• Contingent identity and counterpart theory / Ralf M. Bader
• Grounding is not causation / Sara Bernstein
• To be F is to be G / Cian Dorr
• Yet another "Epicurean" argument / Peter Finocchiaro and Meghan Sullivan
• An argument for necessitism / Jeremy Goodman
• Parthood-like relations: closure principles and connections to some axioms of classical mereology / Paul Hovda
• Personites, maximality and ontological trash / Mark Johnston
• Vagueness & modality--an ecumenical approach / Jon Erling Litland and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
• An epistemic account of metaphysical equivalence / Michaela Markham McSweeney
• Chance and necessity / Daniel Nolan
• Qualitative grounds / Jeffrey Sanford Russell
• A puzzle about points / Aaron Segal
• Curbing enthusiasm about grounding / Jason Turner
• Fundamentality and modal freedom / Jennifer Wang-- Representational scepticism: the bubble puzzle / J. Robert G. Williams.

• Introduction
• 1. Containment Analyticity and Kant's Problem of Synthetic Judgment
• PART I-THE TRADITIONAL LOGIC OF CONCEPT CONTAINMENT AND ITS (ALLEGED) METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS
• 2. Containment and the Traditional Logic of Concepts
• 3. The Wolffian Paradigm
• 4. Narrowness and Trade-offs: Conceptual Truth in the 'Leibnizian-Wolffian' Philosophy
• PART II-A DIFFICULT BIRTH: THE EMERGENCE OF KANT'S ANALYTIC/SYNTHETIC DISTINCTION
• 5. Three Versions of Analyticity
• 6. Methodological Beginnings: Analysis and Synthesis in the Published pre-Critical Works
• 7. Making Synthetic Judgments Analytic: Kant's Long Road toward Logical Analyticity in the Reflexionen
• PART III-INELIMINABLE SYNTHETIC TRUTH IN ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS
• 8. The Logic of Concepts and a 'Two Step' Syntheticity Argument
• 9. Kant on the Syntheticity of Elementary Mathematics
• PART IV-THE POVERTY OF CONCEPTUAL TRUTH AND THE MASTER ARGUMENT OF THE 'TRANSCENDENTAL DIALECTIC'
• 10. The Master Argument
• 11. The Soul and the World: the Master Argument in Kant's 'Paralogisms' and 'Antinomy'
• 12. The Master Argument in the Critique of Rational Theology
• EPILOGUE
• 13. Empirical Concept Formation and the Systematic Role of Logical Division
• Appendix 1: Kant's Criticisms of the Ontological Argument in
• 1763
• Four Strands of Reflexionen on the Emerging Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
• Friedman and the Phenomenological Reading.
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The Poverty of Conceptual Truth is based on a simple idea. Kant's distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments underwrites a powerful argument against the metaphysical program of his Leibnizian-Wolffian predecessors-an argument from fundamental limits on its expressive power. In that tradition, metaphysics promised to reveal the deep rational structure of the world through a systematic philosophy consisting of strictly conceptual truths, which flow from a logically perspicuous relation of 'containment' among concepts. That is, all truths would be 'analytic, ' in Kant's sense. Kant's distinction shows to the contrary that far reaching and scientifically indispensable parts of our knowledge of the world (including mathematics, the foundations of natural science, all knowledge from experience, and the central principles of metaphysics itself) are essentially synthetic and could never be restated in analytic form. Thus, the metaphysics of Kant's predecessors is doomed, because knowledge crucial to any adequate theory of the world cannot even be expressed in the idiom to which it restricts itself (and which was the basis of its claim to provide a transparently rational account of things). Traditional metaphysics founders on the expressive poverty of conceptual truth. To establish these claims, R. Lanier Anderson shows how Kant's distinction can be given a clear basis within traditional logic, and traces Kant's long, difficult path to discovering it. Once analyticity is framed in clear logical terms, it is possible to reconstruct compelling arguments that elementary mathematics must be synthetic, and then to show how similar considerations about irreducible syntheticity animate Kant's famous arguments against traditional metaphysics in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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• Preface ix
• Chapter 1: On What There Isn't (But Might Have Been)
• 1
• Chapter 2: Merely Possible Possible Worlds
• 22
• Chapter 3: What Is Haecceitism, and Is It True?
• 52
• Chapter 4: Disentangling Semantics from Metaphysics
• 89
• Chapter 5: Modal Realism, Modal Rationalism, Modal Naturalism
• 126 Appendix A: Modeling Contingently Existing Propositions
• 136 Appendix B: Propositional Functions and Properties
• 139 Appendix C: A Model for a Mighty Language
• 149 Appendix D: Counterpart Semantics for the Cheap Haecceitist
• 154 References
• 157 Index 161.
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It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibnizian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposition might or must be true if it is true in some or all possible worlds. The actualist, who believes that nothing exists except what actually exists, prefers to talk of possible states of the world, or of ways that a world might be. But even the actualist still faces the problem of explaining what we are talking about when we talk about the domains of other possible worlds. In Mere Possibilities, Robert Stalnaker develops a framework for clarifying this problem, and explores a number of actualist strategies for solving it. Some philosophers have hypothesized a realm of individual essences that stand as proxies for all merely possible beings. Others have argued that we are committed to the necessary existence of everything that does or might exist. In contrast, Mere Possibilities shows how we can make sense of ordinary beliefs about what might and must exist without making counterintuitive metaphysical commitments. The book also sheds new light on the nature of metaphysical theorizing by exploring the interaction of semantic and metaphysical issues, the connections between different metaphysical issues, and the nature of ontological commitment.
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• 1. Identity, Essence, and Indiscernibility
• 2. Intrinsicness
• 3. Cause and Essence
• 4. De Facto Dependence
• 5. Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?
• 6. Apriority and Existence
• 7. Go Figure
• 8. Abstract Objects
• 9. The Myth of the Seven
• 10. Carving Content at the Joints
• 11. Must Existence -Questions Have Answers?
• 12. Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure.
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Things is a collection of twelve metaphysical essays by Stephen Yablo. The essays address a range of first-order topics, including identity, coincidence, essence, existence, causation, and properties. Some first-order debates are not worth pursuing, Yablo maintains; there is nothing at issue in them. Several of the papers explore the metaontology of abstract objects, and more generally of objects that are 'preconceived', their principal features being settled already by their job-descriptions. Yablo rejects standard forms of fictionalism, opting ultimately for a view that puts presupposition in the role normally played by pretense. Almost all of Yablo's published work on these topics is collected here, along with the previously unpublished 'Carving Content at the Joints'.
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• List of Contributors. Introduction. Part I: Extended Essays. Part II: Metaphysics from A to Z. Index.
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Fully extended and revised, "A Companion to Metaphysics, Second Edition" includes a section of detailed review essays from renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300. This work: includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries; features more than 30 all-new 'A to Z' entries; offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned metaphysicians; and, provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for students and professionals alike.
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• Notes on contributors.Introduction.I. Abstract entities.1.1 Abstract entities: Chris Swoyer (University of Oklahoma).1.2 There are no abstract objects: Cian Dorr (University of Pittsburgh).II. Causation and laws of nature.2.1 Nailed to Hume's cross?: John W. Carroll (North Carolina State University).2.2 Causation and laws of nature: Reductionism: Jonathan Schaffer (University of Massachusetts-Amherst).III. Modality and possible worlds.3.1 Concrete possible worlds: Phillip Bricker(University of Massachusetts- Amherst).3.2 Ersatz possible worlds: Joseph Melia (University of Leeds).IV. Personal identity.4.1 People and their bodies: Judith Jarvis Thomson (MIT).4.2 Persons, bodies, and human beings: Derek Parfit (All Souls College, Oxford).V. Time.5.1 The privileged present: defending an "A-theory" of time: Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University).5.2 The tenseless theory of time: J. J. C. Smart (Australian National University).VI. Persistence.6.1 Temporal parts: Theodore Sider (Rutgers University).6.2 Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism: John Hawthorne (Rutgers University).VII. Free will.7.1 Incompatibilism: Robert Kane (University of Texas at Austin).7.2 Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism: Kadri Vihvelin (University of Southern California).VIII. Mereology.8.1 The moon and sixpence: a defense of mereological universalism: James van Cleve (University of Southern California).8.2 Restricted composition: Ned Markosian (Western Washington University).IX. Meteontology.9.1 Ontological arguments: interpretive charity and quantifier variance: Eli Hirsch (Brandeis University).9.2 The picture of reality as an amorphous lump: Matti Eklund (Cornell University).Index.
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In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteen leading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of the most cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics. This title explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysics in a series of eighteen original essays - 16 of which are newly commissioned for this volume. It features an introductory essay by the editors on the nature of metaphysics to prepare the reader for ongoing discussions. It offers readers the unique opportunity to observe leading philosophers engage in head-to-head debate on cutting-edge metaphysical topics. It provides valuable insights into the flourishing field of contemporary metaphysics.
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• Preface to 2nd Edition. Sources. Introduction: What is metaphysics?. Part I: What Are the Most General Features of the World?:. A. What is existence?.
• 1. Holes:David Lewis and Stephanie Lewis.
• 2. On What There Is:W. V. O. Quine.
• 3. Beyond Being and Nonbeing:Roderick M. Chisholm. B. What is the relationship between an individual and its characteristics?.
• 4. Universals: an Excerpt from The Problems of Philosophy:Bertrand Russell.
• 5. Universals as Attributes:. An Excerpt from Universals: an Opinionated Introduction, David M. Armstrong.
• 6. Universals and Resemblances:
• Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience H. H. Price.
• 7. The Elements of Being:D.C. Williams.
• 8. The Identity of Indiscernibles:Max Black.
• 9. Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory:Dean W. Zimmerman. C. What is time? What is space?.
• 10. Time: an Excerpt from The Nature of Existence:J. McT. E. McTaggart.
• 11. McTaggart's Arguments against the Reality of Time: an Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy. C. D. Broad.
• 12. The Notion of the Present:A. N. Prior.
• 13. Changes in Events and Changes in Things:A. N. Prior.
• 14. The General Problem of Time and Change: an Excerpt from Scientific Thought:C. D. Broad.
• 15. The Myth of Passage:D. C. Williams.
• 16. Some Free Thinking about Time:A. N. Prior.
• 17. The Fourth Dimension: an Excerpt from The Ambidextrous Universe:Martin Gardner.
• 18. Incongruent Counterparts and Higher Dimensions:James Van Cleve.
• 19. The Traditional Conception of Space, and the Principle of Extensive Abstraction:. An Excerpt from Scientific Thought:C. D. Broad.
• 20. Achilles and the Tortoise: Max Black.
• 21. A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes: an Excerpt from Space, Time, and Motion. Wesley C. Salmon.
• 22. Grasping the Infinite: Jose A. Benardete.
• 23. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis. D. How do Things Persist through Changes of Parts and Properties?.
• 24. Of Confused Subjects Which Are Equivalent to Two Subjects:. An Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic:Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole.
• 25. The Paradox of Increase:Eric T. Olson.
• 26. Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis:W. V. O. Quine.
• 27. In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to "Survival and Identity". David Lewis.
• 28. The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics: an Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds. David Lewis.
• 29. Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism:Dean W. Zimmerman. E. How do Causes Bring about their Effects?.
• 30. Constant Conjunction: an Excerpt from A Treatise of Human Nature. David Hume.
• 31. Efficient Cause and Active Power: an Excerpt from Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind. Thomas Reid.
• 32. Psychological and Physical Causal Laws: an Excerpt from The Analysis of Mind. Bertrand Russell.
• 33. Causality: an Excerpt from A Modern Introduction to Logic: L. Susan Stebbing.
• 34. Causality and Determination: G. E. M. Anscombe. Part II: What Is Our Place in the World?:. A. How Are Mind and Body Related?.
• 35. Which Physical Thing Am I?: an Excerpt from "Is There a Mind-Body Problem?". Roderick M. Chisholm.
• 36. Personal Identity: a Materialist Account: Sydney Shoemaker.
• 37. An Argument for Animalism: Eric T. Olson.
• 38. Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons: Derek Parfit.
• 39. Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory: Richard Swinburne.
• 40. The Causal Theory of the Mind: David M. Armstrong.
• 41. The Puzzle of Conscious Experience: David J. Chalmers.
• 42. Neutral Monism: an Excerpt from Philosophy: Bertrand Russell. B. Is it Possible for Us to Act Freely?.
• 43. We Are Never Free: an Excerpt from The System of Nature. Paul-Henri Dietrich, Baron d'Holbach.
• 44. Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable without It. R. E. Hobart.
• 45. Freedom, Causation, and Preexistence: an Excerpt from Problems of Mind and Matter. John Wisdom.
• 46. Human Freedom and the Self: Roderick M. Chisholm.
• 47. The Consequence Argument: Peter van Inwagen.
• 48. The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom: Peter van Inwagen.
• 49. The Agent as Cause: Timothy O'Connor.
• 50. Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility: Harry G. Frankfurt.
• 51. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person: Harry G. Frankfurt. Part III: Are There Many Worlds?:. A. Are There Worlds Other than the Actual World?.
• 52. Modal Realism at Work: an Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds. David Lewis.
• 53. Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies: David Lewis.
• 54. Identity and Necessity: Saul Kripke. B. Is There More than One Actual World?.
• 55. After Metaphysics, What?: Hilary Putnam.
• 56. Truth and Convention: Hilary Putnam.
• 57. Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity: an Excerpt from "Putnam's Pragmatic Realism". Ernest Sosa.
• 58. Addendum to "Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity": Objections and Replies. Ernest Sosa. Part IV: Why Is There a World?:.
• 59. The Problem of Being:
• Chapter 3 of Some Problems of Philosophy: William James.
• 60. Why Anything? Why This?: Derek Parfit.
• 61. Response to Derek Parfit: Richard Swinburne.
• 62. The Cosmological Argument: an Excerpt from A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God. Samuel Clarke.
• 63. The Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason: William L. Rowe.
• 64. The Ontological Argument: Chapters II-IV of the Proslogion: St Anselm.
• 65. Anselm's Ontological Arguments: Norman Malcolm. Index.
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• Preface. Introduction: What is Metaphysics? Part I: What are the most General Features of the World? : Introduction. A. What is the Relationship between an Individual and its Characteristics?
• 1. Universals and Resemblances:
• Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience: H. H. Price.
• 2. The Elements of Being: D. C. Williams.
• 3. The Principle of Individuation: an Excerpt from Human Knowledge, its Scope and Limits: Bertrand Russell.
• 4. Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory: Dean W. Zimmerman. B. What is Time? What is Space?
• 5. Time: an Excerpt from The Nature of Existence: J. McT. E. McTaggart.
• 6. McTaggart's Arguments against the Reality of Time: an Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy.
• 7. The Notion of the Present: A. N. Prior.
• 8. The General Problem of Time and Change: an Excerpt from Scientific Thought: C. D. Broad.
• 9. The Space-Time World: An Excerpt from Philosophy and Scientific Realism: J. J. C. Smart.
• 10. Topis, Soris, Noris: an Excerpt from The Existence of Space and Time: Ian Hinckfuss.
• 11. Some Free Thinking about Time: A. N. Prior.
• 12. The Fourth Dimension: an Excerpt from The Ambidextrous Universe: Martin Gardner.
• 13. Incongruent Counterparts and Higher Dimensions: James Van Cleve.
• 14. Achilles and the Tortoise: Max Black.
• 15. A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes: an Excerpt from Space, Time and Motion: Wesley C. Salmon.
• 16. Grasping the Infinite: Jose A. Bernadete.
• 17. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis. C. How do things Persist through Changes of Parts and Properties?
• 18. Of Confused Subjects which are Equivalent to Two Subjects: an Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic: Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole.
• 19. Identity Through Time: Roderick M. Chisholm.
• 20. Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis: W. V. O. Quine.
• 21. Identity: an Excerpt From Quiddities: W. V. O. Quine.
• 22. In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to 'Survival and identity': David Lewis.
• 23. Some Problems About Time: Peter Geach.
• 24. The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics: an Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds: David Lewis.
• 25. Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism: Dean W. Zimmerman. D. How do Causes Bring about their Effects?
• 26. Constant Conjunction: an excerpt from A Treatise of Human Nature: David Hume.
• 27. Efficient Cause and Active Power: an excerpt from Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind: Thomas Reid.
• 28. Psychological and Physical Causal Laws: an Excerpt from The Analysis of Mind: Bertrand Russell.
• 29. Causality: an Excerpt from A Modern Introduction to Logic: L. Susan Stebbing.
• 30. Causality and Determination: G. E. M. Anscombe. Part II: What is our Place in the World? : Introduction. A. How is the Appearance of a Thing Related to the Thing that Appears?
• 31. The Theory of Sensa: an Excerpt from Scientific Thought: C. D. Broad.
• 32. Qualities: an Excerpt from Consciousness and Causality: D. M. Armstrong.
• 33. The Status of Appearances: an Excerpt from Theory of Knowledge, 1st edition: Roderick M. Chisholm. B. What is the Relation Between Mind and Body?
• 34. Which Physical Thing am I? : an Excerpt From 'Is There a Mind Body Problem? ': Roderick M. Chisholm.
• 35. Personal Identity: a Materialist Account: Sydney Shoemaker.
• 36. Dividend Minds and the Nature of Persons: Derek Parfit.
• 37. Body and Soul: an Excerpt from The Evolution of the Soul: Richard Swinburne.
• 38. The Puzzle of Conscious Experience: David Chalmers. C. Is it Possible for us to Act Freely?
• 39. Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable Without it: R. E. Hobart.
• 40. Human Freedom and the Self: Richard M. Chisholm.
• 41. The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom: Peter van Inwagen.
• 42. The Agent as Cause: Timothy O'Connor. Part III: Is There Just One World? : Introduction.
• 43. Speaking of Objects: W. V. O. Quine.
• 44. After Metaphysics, What? : Hilary Putnam.
• 45. Truth and Convention: Hilary Putnam.
• 46. Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity: an Excerpt from 'Putnam's Pragmatic Realism': Ernest Sosa.
• 47. Addendum to 'Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity': Objections and Replies: Ernest Sosa. Part IV: Why is There a World? : Introduction. A. Is There an Answer?
• 48. The Problem of Being:
• Chapter 3 of Some Problems of Philosophy: William James.
• 49. The Puzzle of Reality: Derek Parfit.
• 50. Reply to Parfit: Richard Swinburne. B. Does the Answer Involve a Necessary Being?
• 51. The Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason: William L. Rowe.
• 52. The Ontological Argument: Chapters II-IV of the Proslogion: St. Anselm.
• 53. Anselm's Ontological Arguments: Norman Malcolm. Part V: Is Metaphysics Possible? : Introduction.
• 54. The Rejection of Metaphysics:
• Chapter 1 of Philosophy and Logical Syntax: Rudolf Carnap.
• 55. Postmodernism, Feminism, and Metaphysics: an excerpt from Thinking Fragments: Jane Flax.
• 56. Metaphysics and Feminist Theory: Excerpts from 'Feminist Metaphysics' and 'Anti-Essentialism in Feminist Theory': Charlotte Witt. Index.
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This extensively revised and expanded edition of van Inwagen and Zimmerman's popular collection of readings in metaphysics now features twenty-two additional selections, new sections on existence and reality, and an updated editorial commentary. * Collects classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics * Answers some of the most puzzling questions about our world and our place in it * Covers an unparalleled range of topics * Now includes a new section on existence and reality, expanded discussions on many classic issues, and an updated editorial commentary.
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This student anthology presents both classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics and collects a wide range of answers to to key metaphysical questions. Metaphysics originates in attempts to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the world and our place in it. How are the appearances of things related to the things that appear? What is the nature of space and time? How do things persist through changes of parts and properties? How do causes bring about their effects? What is the relation between mind and body? Is it possible for us to act freely? Is there just one world? Why is there a world at all? Can there be answers to these questions? If so, must the answers appeal to the action of a necessary being?
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• Infinity, relativity and smoothness / Frank Arntzenius
• A definition of necessity / George Bealer
• Absolute actuality and the plurality of worlds / Philip Bricker
• Two modal-Isms: fictionalism and ersatzism / Berit Brogaard
• Neo-Fregean ontology / Matti Eklund
• What are sets and what are they for? / Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley
• Relativistic persistence / Ian Gibson & Oliver Pooley
• Where in the relativistic world are we? / Cody Gilmore
• Counterfactuals and the analysis of necessity / Boris Kment
• Modal realism / Kris McDaniel
• In defense of essentialism / L. A. Paul
• Failures to act and failures of additivity / Carolina Sartorio
• 'Bare particulars' / Theodore Sider
• Counting across times / Zoltán Gendler Szabó
• Receptacles / Gabriel Uzquiano
• Names for relations / Peter van Inwagen
• The asymmetric magnets problem / Brain Weatherson
• Illusions of gunk / J. R. G. Williams.

• Introduction
• 1. The Problem of Universals. Metaphysical Realism
• 2. The Problem of Universals. Nominalism
• 3. Concrete Particulars. Substrata, Bundles and Substances
• 4. Propositions and their Neighbours
• 5. The Necessary and the Possible
• 6. Causation
• 7. The Nature of Time
• 8. Concrete Particulars
• 2: Persistence through Time
• 9. The Challenge of Anti-Realism Bibliography Index.
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Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is aimed at students of metaphysics who have already completed an introductory philosophy course. This third edition of the successful textbook provides a fresh look at key topics in metaphysics and includes two new chapters on time and causation. Wherever possible, Loux links contemporary views to their classical sources in the history of philosophy. This new edition also keeps the user-friendly format, the chapter overviews summarizing the main topics and examples to clarify difficult concepts.
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• Introduction
• 1. Problems in the history of fictionalism
• 2. Metaphor and prop oriented make-believe
• 3. The myth of seven
• 4. Modal fictionalism and analysis
• 5. Truth as a pretence
• 6. Belief about nothing in particular
• 7. Fictionalist attitudes about fictional matters
• 8. What we disagree about when we disagree about ontology
• 9. Moral fictionalism
• 10. Quasi-realism is fictionalism
• 11. Quasi-realism no fictionalism.
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Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. It came to prominence in philosophy in 1980, when Hartry Field argued that mathematics does not have to be true to be good, and Bas van Fraassen argued that the aim of science is not truth but empirical adequacy. Both suggested that the acceptance of a mathematical or scientific theory need not involve belief in its content. Thus the distinctive commitment of fictionalism is that acceptance in a given domain of inquiry need not be truth-normed, and that the acceptance of a sentence from the associated region of discourse need not involve belief in its content. In metaphysics fictionalism is now widely regarded as an option worthy of serious consideration. This volume represents a major benchmark in the debate: it brings together an impressive international team of contributors, whose essays (all but one of them appearing here for the first time) represent the state of the art in various areas of metaphysical controversy, relating to language, mathematics, modality, truth, belief, ontology, and morality.
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Fictionalism is the view that a serious intellectual inquiry need not aim at truth. Since 1980, fictionalist accounts of science, mathematics, morality, and other domains of inquiry have been developed. In metaphysics fictionalism is now widely regarded as an option worthy of serious consideration. This volume represents a major benchmark in the debate: it brings together an impressive international team of contributors, whose essays (all but one of them appearing here for the first time) represent the state of the art in various areas of metaphysical controversy, relating to language, mathematics, modality, truth, belief, ontology, and morality.
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• Preface.PART I: METAPHYSICS AND ITS TOOLS .1: The Nature and Function of Metaphysics.The Methodology and Subject Matter of Metaphysics.Aristotle's Conception of Metaphysics.Kant's Conception of Metaphysics.A Working Conception of Metaphysics.2: Some Tools of Metaphysics.Criteria of Ontological Commitment: Two Examples.'No Entity Without Identity': Identity Conditions for Objects.Individuation Conditions, Identity Conditions, and Metaphysical Kinds.Principles and Criteria of Identity.PART II: PARTICULARS.3: Material Substances.Our Ontological Commitment to Material Substances.The Bundle Theory and the Principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles.Problems with the Bundle Theory.The Bare Substratum Theory and The Principle of Acquaintance.Objections to the Bare Substratum Theory.An Alternative.4: Persons and Personal Identity.Our Ontological Commitment to Persons.Candidates for Persistence Conditions for Persons.The Closest Continuer Theory.Does the Concept of Identity Apply to Persons?.The Multiple Occupancy Thesis.Back to Basics: Continuity and Fission.A Suggestion.5: Events.Our Ontological Commitment to Events.Three Criteria: Spatio-temporal Coincidence, Necessary Spatio-temporal Coincidence, and Sameness of Cause and.Effect.The Property Exemplification Account of Events.PART III: UNIVERSALS.6: Universals and the Realism/Nominalism Dispute.The Issue.Varieties of Nominalism.Two Conceptions of Universals.The Regress Charge and Two Unsuccessful Attempts to Meet It.An Alternative.Notes.Bibliography.Index.
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"Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics" is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience. A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience. It contains a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. It examines a wide range of ontological categories, including both particulars and universals. It mounts a forceful and persuasive case for anti-reductionism.
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• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics-- Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason: From the Transcendental Aesthetic-- From the Transcendental Logic, Introduction-- From the Transcendental Logic, First Division, Analytic-- From the Analytic of Principles-- From the Transcendental Logic, Second Division, Dialectic-- From the Transcendental Doctrine of Method-- Background source materials: The Gottingen (or Garve-Feder) Review-- The Gotha Review.
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Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This new, revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from the Critique of Pure Reason, which fill out and explicate some of Kant's central arguments (including famous sections of the Schematism and Analogies), and in which Kant himself explains his special terminology. The first reviews of the Critique, to which Kant responded in the Prolegomena, are included in this revised edition. The volume is completed by a historical and philosophical introduction, explanatory notes, a chronology, and a guide to further reading.
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• Introduction--
• 1. NOMINALISM--
• 2. Platonistic Theories of Universals--
• 3. Individuation--
• 4. IDENTITY--
• 5. Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities--
• 6. THE REDUCTION OF POSSIBLIA--
• 7. Reductive Theories of Modality--
• 8. PRESENTISM--
• 9. Four-Dimensionalism--
• 10. Space-Time Substantivalism--
• 11. Persistence through Time--
• 12. EVENTS--
• 13. Causation and Supervenience--
• 14. Causation in a Physical World--
• 15. Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics--
• 16. MATERIAL PEOPLE--
• 17. The Ontology of the Mental--
• 18. Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction--
• 19. LIBERTARIANISM--
• 20. Compatibilism--
• 21. DUMMETT ON REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM--
• 22. Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self--
• 23. Vagueness in Reality.
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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.
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• Thinking about things / Michael Jubien
• The case for phenomenal externalism / William G. Lycan
• Naturalism: friends and foes / Penelope Maddy
• Nominalism, naturalism, epistemic relativism / Gideon Rosen
• The limits of human mathematics / Nathan Salmon
• Touching / Hud Hudson
• How to be an eleatic monist / Michael C. Rea
• Against creationism in fiction / Takashi Yagisawa
• Realism about personal identity over time / Trenton Merricks
• Criteria of personal identity and the limits of conceptual analysis / Theodore Sider
• Metaphysical austerity and the problems of temporal and modal anaphora / Peter Ludlow
• McTaggart on time / Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Russellianism and explanation / David Braun
• Day designations / Jeffrey C. King
• Fregean senses, modes of presentation, and concepts / Edward N. Zalta
• Causal structuralism / John Hawthorne
• On theoretical identifications / G.W. Fitch
• The conceivability argument and two conceptions of the physical / Daniel Stoljar
• Sustaining actualism / Michael Devitt
• How not to be an actualist / James E. Tomberlin.

• Part 1 - Universals: the problem of universals, Michael J. Loux-- the world of universals, Bertrand Russell-- universals and resemblance, H. H. Price-- on what there is, W.V. Quine-- the elements of being, D.C. Williams-- universals as attributes, David Armstrong-- properties and states of affair intentionally considered, Roderick Chisolm.
• Part 2 - Particulars: the ontological structure of concrete particulars, Michael J. Loux-- the identity of indiscernibles, Max Black-- the identity of indiscernible, A.J. Ayer-- bare particulars, Edwin Allaire-- three versions of the bundle theory, James Van Cleve-- a fourth Version of the bundle theory, Albert Casullo-- bodies, P.F. Strawson.
• Part 3 - Possible worlds-- modality and possible worlds, Michael J. Loux-- possible worlds, David Lewis-- actualism and possible worlds, Alvin Plantinga-- counterparts or double lives, David Lewis-- two concepts of possible worlds, Peter van Inwagen-- identity and necessity, Saul Kripke.
• Part 4 - Causation: cause and effect, Michael J. Loux, causality in everyday life and in recent science, Moritz Schlick-- Cause, A.C. Ewing-- causes and conditions, John L. Mackie-- causality and determination, G.E.M. Anscombe-- causation, David Lewis.
• Part 5 - Time: time - the A-theory and the B-theory, Michael J. Loux-- time, J.M.E. McTaggart-- ostensible temporality, C.D. Broad-- time and eternity' Richard Taylor-- the notion of the present, A.N. Prior-- the space-time world, J.J.C. Smart-- the need for time, D.H. Mellor-- how fast does time pass?, Ned Markosian.
• Part 6 - Persistence through time: endurantism and perdurantism, Michael J. Loux-- temporal parts of four- dimensional objects, Mark Heller-- identity through time, Roderick Chisholm-- endurance and indiscernibility, Trenton Merricks-- personal identity, Derek Parfit-- survival and identity, David Lewis-- personal identity - the dualist theory, Richard Swinburne.
• Part 7 - Realism and anti-realism: realism and anti-realism, Michael J. Loux-- realism, Michael Dummett-- ontological relativity, W.V. Quine-- a problem about reference, Hilary Putnam-- Objectivity, Peter van Inwagen-- yes, Virginia, there is a real world, William Alston.
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Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on major themes in Metaphysics. Chapters appear under the headings: Universals, Particulars, Modality and Possible Worlds, Causation, Time and Realism and Anti-realism. Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editor which guides students gently into each topic. Articles by leading philosophers are included. The book is highly accessible and user-friendly and provides a broad-ranging exploration of the subject. Ideal for the philosophy student, this reader will prove essential reading for any metaphysics course. The readings are designed to complement Michael Loux's textbook, Metaphysics: a contemporary introduction (second edition). Articles by the following leading philosophers are included: Russell, Quine, Kripke, Dummett, Price, Chisolm, Van Cleve, Schlick, Taylor, D.H. Mellor, Merricks, A.J. Ayer, P.F. Strawson, G.E.M. Ans.
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Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on major themes in Metaphysics. Chapters appear under the headings: Universals, Particulars, Modality and Possible Worlds, Causation, Time and Realism and Anti-realism. The book is highlyaccessible and user-friendly and provides a broad-ranging exploration of the subject. Ideal for the philosophy student, this reader will prove essential reading for any metaphysics course.
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• 1. The Integration Challenge
• 2. Truth, Content, and the Epistemic
• 3. The Past
• 4. Necessity
• 5. Self-knowledge and Intentional Content
• 6. Self-knowledge and Illusions of Transcendence
• 7. Freedom
• 8. Concluding Remarks
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Being Known is a response to a philosophical challenge which arises for every area of thought. The challenge is one of reconciling our conception of truth in an area with the means by which we think we come to know truth about that area. Meeting the challenge may require a revision of our conception of truth in that area; or a revision of our theory of knowledge for that area; or a revision in our conception of the relations between the two. Christopher Peacocke presents a framework for addressing the challenge, a framework which links both the theory of knowledge and the theory of truth with the theory of concept-possession. It formulates a set of constraints and a general form of solution for a wide range of topics. He goes on to propose specific solutions within this general form for a series of classically problematic subjects: the past; metaphysical necessity; the intentional contents of our own mental states; the self; and freedom of the will. Being Known will interest anyone concerned with those individual topics, as well as those concerned more generally with meaning and understanding, metaphysics and epistemology, and their interrelations.
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