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

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a major new series 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 causation, laws of nature, persistence through time, and time itself; and realism and anti-realism in the many senses of these terms); but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions that open up within other subfields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science (questions about supervenience and materialism, the nature of qualia, mental causation, metaphysical implications of relativity and quantum physics, mereological theories of biological species, and so on). Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. Each future volume shall also include an essay by the winner of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics younger scholar award, a prize inaugurated with this first issue.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zimmerman, Dean

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I. Presentism

- 1: David Lewis: Tensed Qualifiers

- 2: Ned Markosian: A Defense of Presentism

- 3: Symposium: Defining Presentism

- On Presentism and Triviality

- Presentism, Triviality, and the Varieties of Tensism

- Reply to Ludlow

- 4: Simon Keller: Presentism and Truthmaking

- II. Universals

- 5: Peter van Inwagen: A Theory of Properties

- 6: D. M. Armstrong: How Do Particulars Stand to Universals?

- 7: Cian Dorr: Non-symmetric Relations

- III. Freedom, Causal Powers, and Causation

- 8: Peter Unger: The Mental Problems of the Many

- 9: John Heil: Properties and Powers

- 10: Ned Hall: The Intrinsic Character of Causation

- 11: Ryan Wasserman, John Hawthorne, and Mark Scala: Recombination, Causal Constraints, and Humean Supervenience: An Argument for Temporal Parts?

Über Autor(innen)

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