Metaphysics The Fundamentals.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Koons, Robert C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Metaphysics: The Fundamentals
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1 What Is Metaphysics?
  • 1.1 The Subject of Metaphysics
  • 1.2 The Methods of Metaphysics
  • 1.3 The Waxing and Waning of Metaphysics
  • 1.4 Modern Challenges to Metaphysics
  • 1.5 The Renaissance of Metaphysics in the Later "Analytic" Era
  • 1.6 Metaphysics as First Philosophy
  • 1.7 Overview of the Book
  • Chapter 2 Truthmakers
  • 2.1 Propositions
  • 2.2 Classical Truthmaker Theory
  • 2.2.1 Three Arguments for Truthmakers
  • 2.2.2 Two Varieties of Classical Truthmaker Theory
  • 2.3 Deflationism
  • 2.4 Truth Supervenes on Being
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3 Causation and Powers
  • 3.1 Do Causes Exist?
  • 3.1.1 Objections to Causes
  • 3.1.2 Arguments for Causes
  • 3.2 Causal Dispositions and Conditionals
  • 3.3 Four Metaphysical Theories
  • 3.3.1 Against Hypotheticalism
  • 3.3.2 Against Nomism
  • 3.4 Neo-Humeism
  • 3.4.1 Advantages of Neo-Humeism
  • 3.4.2 Objections to Neo-Humeism
  • 3.5 Powerism
  • 3.5.1 Powers and Properties
  • 3.5.2 Nothing but Powers?
  • 3.5.3 Advantages of Powerism
  • 3.5.4 Objections to Powerism
  • 3.6 Conclusion
  • Note
  • Chapter 4 Properties
  • 4.1 The Theoretical Role of Properties
  • 4.2 Realism
  • 4.3 Reductive Nominalism
  • 4.3.1 Class Nominalism
  • 4.3.2 Resemblance Nominalism
  • 4.4 Trope Theory
  • 4.4.1 Two Versions of Trope Theory
  • 4.4.2 A Dilemma for Modular Trope Theory
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5 Particulars
  • 5.1 Facts
  • 5.2 Substances
  • 5.2.1 Relational Ontology
  • 5.2.2 Constituent Ontology
  • 5.3 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6 Composition
  • 6.1 The Special Composition Question
  • 6.2 Ontological Free Lunch?
  • 6.2.1 Composition as Identity
  • 6.2.2 Free Lunch Based on Theories of Property Instantiation
  • 6.2.3 Free Lunch Based on Atomism
  • 6.3 Atomism and Monism
  • 6.4 Emergence and Compositional Pluralism
  • 6.5 Possible Evidence for Compositional Emergence
  • 6.5.1 Prospects for the Justification of Emergence
  • 6.6 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7 Modality
  • 7.1 Possible Worlds: Concretism versus Abstractionism
  • 7.1.1 Concretism
  • 7.1.2 Abstractionism
  • 7.2 Modality De Re: Transworld Identity versus Counterpart Theory
  • 7.2.1 Transworld Identity
  • 7.2.2 Counterpart Theory
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8 The Passage of Time
  • 8.1 The A Theory and the B Theory
  • 8.2 Varieties of A Theories
  • 8.3 Arguments for the B Theory
  • 8.3.1 A Simpler Account of the Semantics of Tense
  • 8.3.2 The Special Theory of Relativity
  • 8.3.3 If Time Passes, How Fast Does It Move?
  • 8.4 Arguments for the A Theory
  • 8.4.1 The Reality of Change
  • 8.4.2 Recalcitrant Linguistic Data
  • 8.4.3 Our Experience of the Flow of Time
  • 8.4.4 The Metaphysical Impossibility of Time Travel
  • 8.5 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Chapter 9 Continuity and Persistence
  • 9.1 Discrete and Continuous Causation
  • 9.2 Instants versus Intervals: Which Are Fundamental?

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