Sider / Hawthorne / Zimmerman Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-71234-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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Reihe: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy

In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteenleading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of themost cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics.
* * Explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysicsin a series of eighteen original essays - 16 of which are newlycommissioned for this volume
* Features an introductory essay by the editors on the nature ofmetaphysics to prepare the reader for ongoing discussions
* Offers readers the unique opportunity to observe leadingphilosophers engage in head-to-head debate on cutting-edgemetaphysical topics
* Provides valuable insights into the flourishing field ofcontemporary metaphysics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sider, Theodore

Hawthorne, John

Zimmerman, Dean W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on contributors.
Introduction.
I. Abstract entities.
1.1 Abstract entities: Chris Swoyer (University ofOklahoma).
1.2 There are no abstract objects: Cian Dorr (University ofPittsburgh).
II. Causation and laws of nature.
2.1 Nailed to Hume's cross?: John W. Carroll (NorthCarolina State University).
2.2 Causation and laws of nature: Reductionism: JonathanSchaffer (University of Massachusetts-Amherst).
III. Modality and possible worlds.
3.1 Concrete possible worlds: Phillip Bricker(University ofMassachusetts- Amherst).
3.2 Ersatz possible worlds: Joseph Melia (University ofLeeds).
IV. Personal identity.
4.1 People and their bodies: Judith Jarvis Thomson (MIT).
4.2 Persons, bodies, and human beings: Derek Parfit (All SoulsCollege, 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 (AustralianNational 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 atAustin).
7.2 Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism: KadriVihvelin (University of Southern California).
VIII. Mereology.
8.1 The moon and sixpence: a defense of mereologicaluniversalism: James van Cleve (University of SouthernCalifornia).
8.2 Restricted composition: Ned Markosian (Western WashingtonUniversity).
IX. Meteontology.
9.1 Ontological arguments: interpretive charity and quantifiervariance: Eli Hirsch (Brandeis University).
9.2 The picture of reality as an amorphous lump: Matti Eklund(Cornell University).
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Theodore Sider is Professor of Philosophy at New YorkUniversity. He is the author of Four-Dimensionalism and (with EarlConee) Riddles of Existence.
John Hawthorne is Waynflete Professor of MetaphysicalPhilosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the author ofMetaphysical Essays, and has published widely in metaphysics,epistemology, philosophy of language, and Leibniz studies.
Dean W. Zimmerman is Associate Professor in thePhilosophy department at Rutgers University. He is editor of OxfordStudies in Metaphysics, and author of numerous articles inmetaphysics and philosophy of religion.