Oxford Studies in Metaphysics

Volume 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-926773-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Metaphysics

This series is dedicated to the timely publication of new work in this highly fertile field of philosophy. The subject is broadly construed, taken to include not only perennially central topics, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions that open up within other subfields.

This series is dedicated to the timely publication of new work in this highly fertile field of philosophy. The subject is broadly construed, taken to include not only perennially central topics (modality, ontology, and mereology; metaphysical theories of

I. PRESENTISM; 1. Tensed Qualifiers; 2. A Defense of Presentism; 3. Symposium: Defining Presentism; On Presentism and Triviality; Presentism, Triviality, and the Varieties of Tensism; Reply to Ludlow; 4. Presentism and Truthmaking; II. UNIVERSALS; 5. A Theory of Properties; 6. How Do Particulars Stand to Universals?; 7. Non-symmetric Relations; III. FREEDOM, CAUSAL POWERS, AND CAUSATION; 8. The Mental Problems of the Many; 9. Properties and Powers; 10. The Intrinsic Character of Causation; 11. Recombination, Causal Constraints, and Humean Supervenience: An Argument for Temporal Parts?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zimmerman, Dean W.

Zimmerman, Dean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Über Autor(innen)

Zimmerman, Dean (Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)