Oxford studies in metaphysics /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Zimmerman, Dean W., Bennett, Karen, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2004-
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Table of Contents:
  • volume 1.
  • Tensed quantifiers / David Lewis
  • Symposium : defining presentism
  • On presentism and triviality / Thomas M. Crisp
  • Presentism, triviality, and the varieties of tensism / Peter Ludlow
  • Reply to Ludlow / Thomas M. Crisp
  • A defense of presentism / Ned Markosian
  • Presentism and truthmaking / Simon Keller
  • A theory of properties / Peter van Inwagen
  • How do particulars stand to universals? / D.M. Armstrong
  • Non-symmetric relations / Cian Dorr
  • The mental problems of the many / Peter Unger
  • Properties and powers / John Heil
  • The intrinsic character of causation / Ned Hall
  • Recombination, causal constraints, and humean supervenience : an argument for temporal parts? / Ryan Wasserman, John Hawthorne, and Mark Scala.
  • volume 2.
  • Max Black's Objection to Mind-Body Identity / Ned Block
  • Mary and Max and Jack and Ned / John Perry
  • A Posterioiri Identities and the Requirements of Rationality / Stephen L. White
  • Goodbye Growing Block / Trenton Merricks
  • Rashi's View of the Open Future : Indeterminateness and Bivalience / Eli Hirsch
  • General Facts, Physical Necessity, and the Metaphysics of Time / Peter Forrest
  • Inexpressible Properties and Propositions / Thomas Hofweber
  • Aristotle's Constituent Ontology / Michael J. Loux
  • The Relation Between General and Particula r: Entailment vs. Supervenience / Phillip Bricker
  • Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity / John Hawthorne
  • God and the Problem of Universals / Brian Leftow
  • A Theistic Argument Against Platonism (and in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity) / Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower
  • Beautiful Evils / Hud Hudson.
  • volume 3.
  • Human Beings, Human Animals, and Mentalistic Survival / Denis Robinson
  • Human beings revisited : my body is not an animal / Mark Johnston
  • Worlds, Pluriverses, and Minds / Mark Heller
  • Analyzing Modality / Michael Jubien
  • Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence / Matthew McGrath
  • Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence / Cody Gilmore
  • Theories of Location / Josh Parsons
  • Brutal Simples / Kris McDaniel
  • Contact and Continuity / William Kilborn
  • Metaphysical Compatibilism's Appropriation of Frankfurt / Ted A. Warfield.
  • volume 4.
  • Nominalism / Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Quine and Tarski on Nominalism / Paolo Mancosu
  • Cats, Dogs, and So On / John P. Burgess
  • Quine's Lecture on Nominalism From the Perspective of a Nominalist / Charles Chihara
  • A World of Concrete Particulars / Joseph Melia
  • Quine's 1946 Lecture on Nominalism / Peter van Inwagen
  • Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism / Stephan Leuenberger
  • Truthmakers and Predication / Daniel Nolan
  • On Locating Composite Objects / Jacek Brzozowski
  • Gunk, Topology and Measure / Frank Arntzenius
  • The Structure of Gunk : Adventures in the Ontology of Space / Jeffrey Sanford Russell
  • Beware of the Blob : Cautions for Would-Be Metaphysicians / Mark Wilson.
  • volume 5.
  • Changing the Past / Peter van Inwagen
  • Can a SoufflĂ© Rise Twice? Van Inwagen's Irresponsible Time-Travellers / Peter Forrest
  • Van Inwagen on Time-Travel and Changing the Past / Hud Hudson and Ryan Wasserman
  • Location and Perdurance / Antony Eagle
  • Coinciding Objects and Duration Properties : Reply to Eagle / Cody Gilmore
  • Duration in Relativistic Spacetime / Antony Eagle
  • Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness / Daniel Z. Korman
  • Many as One / Thomas Sattig
  • Extrinsic Temporal Metrics / Bradford Skow
  • Parthood and Multi-Location / Maureen Donnelly
  • Constructing a Theory of Sounds / Casey O'Callaghan
  • Hearing Sounds / Roger Scruton
  • What Sounds Are / Matthew Nudds
  • Sounds and Temporality / Jonathan Cohen.
  • volume 6.
  • Ontological Nihilism / Jason Turner
  • Truthmaking for Presentists / Ross P. Cameron
  • A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy / Elizabeth Barnes and J. Robert G. Williams
  • Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vague Existence / Richard Woodward
  • Mereological Harmony / Gabriel Uzquiano
  • Parthood and Location / Raul Saucedo
  • Externalism and Brain Transplants / Rory Madden.
  • volume 7.
  • Possibility Relative to a Sortal / Delia Graff Fara
  • Reflections on Counterpart Theory / Allen Hazen
  • All Things Must Pass Away / Joshua Spencer
  • Absolute Generality Reconsidered / Agustin Rayo
  • Goodbye, Humean Supervenience / Troy Cross
  • "There sweep great general principles which all the laws seem to follow" / Marc Lange
  • Relativized Metaphysical Modality / Adam Murray and Jessica Wilson
  • Coincidence Through Thick and Thin / Sydney Shoemaker
  • The Real Truth about the Unreal Future / Rachael Briggs and Graeme A. Forbes
  • Presentism and Distributional Properties / Jonathan Tallant and David Ingram.
  • volume 8.
  • Naturalness / Cian Dorr and John Hawthorne
  • Fundamental Properties of Fundamental Properties / Maya Eddon
  • Absolutism vs. Comparativism about Quantity / Shamik Dasgupta
  • Modal Quantification without Worlds / Bill Dunaway
  • Slots in Universals / Cody Gilmore
  • Against Parthood / Theodore Sider
  • Composition as General Identity / Aaron J. Cotnoir
  • Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity / Katherine Hawley
  • Living on the Brink, or Welcome Back, Growing Block! / Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz
  • Fighting the Zombie of the Growing Salami / David Braddon-Mitchell
  • Changing Truthmakers : Reply to Tallant and Ingram / Ross P. Cameron.
  • volume 9.
  • On infinite size / Bruno Whittle
  • Whittle's assault on Cantor's paradise / Vann McGee
  • Reply to Vann McGee's 'Whittle's assault on Cantor's paradise' / Bruno Whittle
  • Problems with plurals / Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen
  • The unreasonable effectiveness of abstract metaphysics / Daniel Nolan
  • Paraphrase, semantics and ontology / John A. Keller
  • Analyticity and ontology / Louis deRosset
  • Naturalizing metaphysics with the help of cognitive science / Alvin I. Goldman
  • Multiple constitution / Nicholas K. Jones
  • Half-hearted Humeanism / Aaron Segal
  • the coarse-grainedness of grounding / Kathirn Koslicki
  • A universe of explanations / Ghislain Guigon
  • Return of the living dead : reply to Braddon-Mitchell / Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz.
  • volume 10.
  • Teleological dispositions / Nick Kroll
  • Indirect directness / Jennifer McKitrick
  • Dispositions without teleology /D avid Manley and Ryan Wasserman
  • Devious stipulations / John Harden
  • Stipulations and requirements : reply to Horden /L ouis deRosset
  • Colors as primitive dispositions /H agit Benbaji
  • Are there ineffable aspects of reality? / Thomos Hofweber
  • The metaphysics of quantities and their dimensions / Bradford Skow
  • Vague existence / Alessandro Torza
  • Ersatz counterparts / Richard Woodward
  • The principle of sufficient reason and probability / Alexander Pruss
  • Grounding ground / Jon Erling Litland.
  • voume 11.
  • A new approach to the relational-substantival debate / Jill North
  • Relative locations / Andrew Bacon
  • A passage theory of time / Martin A. Lipman
  • Fragmenting the wave function / Jonathan Simon
  • Possible patterns / Jeffrey Sanford Russell and John Hawthorne
  • Plural slot theory / T. Scott Dixon
  • Local qualities / Elizabeth Miller
  • Vague naturalness as ersatz metaphysical vagueness / Rohan Sud
  • Against 'Against "Against vague existence" ' / Roberto Loss