Metaphysics : contemporary readings /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. |
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| Description: | xii, 555 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4621866 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Universals
- The Problem of Universals
- 1. "The World of Universals"
- 2. "Universals and Resemblances"
- 3. "On What There Is"
- 4. "The Elements of Being"
- 5. "Universals as Attributes"
- Part II. Particulars
- The Ontological Structure of Concrete Particulars
- 6. "The Identity of Indiscernibles"
- 7. "Bare Particulars"
- 8. "Three Versions of the Bundle Theory"
- 9. "A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory"
- Part III. Possible Worlds
- Modality and Possible Worlds
- 10. "Possible Worlds"
- 11. "Actualism and Possible Worlds"
- 12. "Counterparts or Double Lives?"
- 13. "Identity and Necessity"
- Part IV. Time
- Time: The A-Theory and the B-Theory
- 14. "Time"
- 15. "Ostensible Temporality"
- 16. "Time and Eternity"
- 17. "The Notion of the Present"
- 18. "The Space--Time World"
- 19. "The Need for Tense"
- Part V. Persistence Through Time
- Endurantism and Perdurantism
- 20. "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects"
- 21. "Endurance and Indiscernibility"
- 22. "Personal Identity"
- 23. "Survival and Identity"
- 24. "Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory"
- Part VI. Realism and Anti-Realism
- Realism and Anti-Realism
- 25. "Realism"
- 26. "Ontological Relativity"
- 27. "A Problem about Reference"
- 28. "Objectivity"
- Index
