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Title:

Metaphysics / edited by John Hawthorne.

Publisher:

B. Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

vi, 513 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Metaphysics
Philosophy

Other Authors:

Hawthorne, John (John P.)

Other Titles:

Noûs (Detroit, Mich.)

Notes:

"A supplement to Noûs."--Cover. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Illusions of gunk / J. R. G. Williams. A definition of necessity / George Bealer -- Absolute actuality and the plurality of worlds / Philip Bricker -- Two modal-Isms: fictionalism and ersatzism / Berit Brogaard -- Neo-Fregean ontology / Matti Eklund -- What are sets and what are they for? / Alex Oliver & Timothy Smiley -- Relativistic persistence / Ian Gibson & Oliver Pooley -- Where in the relativistic world are we? / Cody Gilmore -- Counterfactuals and the analysis of necessity / Boris Kment -- Modal realism / Kris McDaniel -- In defense of essentialism / L. A. Paul -- Failures to act and failures of additivity / Carolina Sartorio -- 'Bare particulars' / Theodore Sider -- Counting across times / Zoltán Gendler Szabó -- Receptacles / Gabriel Uzquiano -- Names for relations / Peter van Inwagen -- The asymmetric magnets problem / Brain Weatherson -- Illusions of gunk / J. R. G. Williams.

Series:

Philosophical perspectives, 1520-8583 ; v. 20

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76903379

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)