Metaphysical essays /

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Author / Creator:Hawthorne, John (John P.)
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.
Description:x, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6016994
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ISBN:0199291233 (hbk.)
0199291241 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Standard no.:9780199291236
9780199291243
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Identity
  • 2. Locations
  • 3. Plenitude, convention, and ontology
  • 4. Recombination, causal constraints, and Humean supervenience: an argument for temporal parts?
  • 5. Three dimensionalism
  • 6. Motion and plenitude
  • 7. 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. Which would teleological causation be?
  • 16. Before-effect and Zeno causality