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The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics

Edited by Michael J. Loux and Dean W. Zimmerman

Price: £98.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825024-1
Publication date: 28 August 2003
736 pages, 246x171 mm
Series: Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy
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The definitive reference work for all scholars and students
Completely new contributions from a dream team of philosophers
Comprehensive survey of all major topics
Essays are lively, critical, and important contributions

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. Twenty-four of the world's most distinguished specialists provide brand-new essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the latest word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness. The Handbook 's unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum.

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy

Contents

Introduction

1. I. Universals and Particulars Nominalism , Zoltan Gendler Szabo

2. Platonistic Theories of Universals , Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz

3. Individuation , E. J. Lowe

4. II. Existence and Identity Identity , John Hawthorne

5. Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities , Peter van Inwagen

6. III. Modality and Possible Worlds The Reduction of Possiblia , Kit Fine

7. Reductive Theories of Modality , Theodore Sider

8. IV. Time, Space-Time, and Persistence Presentism , Thomas M. Crisp

9. Four-Dimensionalism , Michael C. Rea

10. Space-Time Substantivalism , Graham Nerlich

11. Persistence through Time , Sally Haslanger

12. V. Events, Causation, and Physics Events , Peter Simons

13. Causation and Supervenience , Michael Tooley

14. Causation in a Physical World , Hartry Field

15. Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics , Tim Maudlin

16. VI. Persons and the Nature of Mind Material People , Dean W. Zimmerman

17. The Ontology of the Mental , Howard Robinson

18. Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction , Jaegwon Kim

19. VII. Freedom of the Will Libertarianism , Carl Ginet

20. Compatibilism , Ted Warfield

21. VIII. Anti-Realism and Vagueness Dummett on Realism and Anti-Realism , Michael J. Loux

22. Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self , Ernest Sosa

23. Vagueness in Reality , Timothy Williamson

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Michael J. Loux, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana and
Dean W. Zimmerman, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Contributors:Thomas M. Crisp, Florida State University
Hartry Field, New York University
Kit Fine, New York University
Carl Ginet, Cornell University
Sally Haslanger, MIT
John Hawthorne, Rutgers University
Joshua Hoffman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Jaegwon Kim, Brown University
Michael J. Loux, University of Notre Dame
E. J. Lowe, University of Durham
Tim Maudlin, Rutgers University
Graham Nerlich, Adelaide University
Michael C. Rea, University of Notre Dame
Howard Robinson, Central European University
Gary S. Rosenkrantz, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Theodore Sider, Rutgers University
Peter Simons, Leeds University
Ernest Sosa, Brown University
Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Cornell University
Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder
Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame
Ted Warfield, University of Notre Dame
Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford
Dean W. Zimmerman, Rutgers University

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