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Metaphysical essays /

Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hawthorne, John (John P.)
Autor Corporativo: Coutts Information Service
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Identity
  • Locations / with Theodore Sider
  • Plenitude, convention, and ontology
  • Recombination, causal constraints, and humean supervenience : an argument for temporal parts? / with Ryan Wasserman and Mark Scala
  • Three-dimensionalism
  • Motion and plenitude
  • Gunk and continuous variation / with Frank Arntzenius
  • Vagueness and the mind of God
  • Epistemicism and semantic plasticity
  • Causal structuralism
  • Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics
  • Determinism de re
  • Why humeans are out of their minds
  • Chance and counterfactuals
  • What would teleological causation be? / with Daniel Nolan
  • Before-effect and Zeno causality.