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Metaphysical Essays.

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hawthorne, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2006.
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  • Contents; Introduction and Acknowledgements; 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. What Would Teleological Causation Be?
  • 16. Before-Effect and Zeno CausalityIndex.