Metaphysical Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-929124-3
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Hawthorne is arguably the leading philosopher of his generation
- Collects Hawthorne's best work in his field of greatest expertise
- Six previously unpublished pieces and a helpful introduction
John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Identity
- 2 John Hawthorne & Theodore Sider: Locations
- 3 Plenitude, convention, and ontology
- 4 John Hawthorne, Ryan Wasserman, and Mark Scala: Recombination, causal constraints, and Humean supervenience: an argument for temporal parts?
- 5 Three dimensionalism
- 6 Motion and plenitude
- 7 John Hawthorne and Frank Arntzenius: Gunk and continuous variation
- 8 Vagueness and the mind of God
- 9 Epistemicism and semantic plasticity
- 10 Causal structuralism
- 11 Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics
- 12 Determinism de re
- 13 Why Humeans are out of their minds
- 14 Chance and counterfactuals
- 15 John Hawthorne and Daniel Nolan: What would teleological causation be?
- 16 Before-effect and Zeno causality

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawthorne, John

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Über Autor(innen)

John Hawthorne, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Contributors: John Hawthorne & Theodore Sider John Hawthorne, Ryan Wasserman, and Mark Scala John Hawthorne and Frank Arntzenius John Hawthorne and Daniel Nolan