The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford Handbooks) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199284229 ISBN 13: 9780199284221

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2005

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael J. Loux is at Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Dean W. Zimmerman is at Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Contenuti:

• Introduction
• 1: Zoltan Gendler Szabo: Nominalism
• 2: Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz: Platonistic Theories of Universals
• 3: E. J. Lowe: Individuation
• 4: John Hawthorne: Identity
• 5: Peter van Inwagen: Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities
• 6: Kit Fine: The Reduction of Possiblia
• 7: Theodore Sider: Reductive Theories of Modality
• 8: Thomas M. Crisp: Presentism
• 9: Michael C. Rea: Four-Dimensionalism
• 10: Graham Nerlich: Space-Time Substantivalism
• 11: Sally Haslanger: Persistence through Time
• 12: Peter Simons: Events
• 13: Michael Tooley: Causation and Supervenience
• 14: Hartry Field: Causation in a Physical World
• 15: Tim Maudlin: Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics
• 16: Dean W. Zimmerman: Material People
• 17: Howard Robinson: The Ontology of the Mental
• 18: Jaegwon Kim: Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction
• 19: Carl Ginet: Libertarianism
• 20: Ted Warfield: Compatibilism
• 21: Michael J. Loux: Dummett on Realism and Anti-Realism
• 22: Ernest Sosa: Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self
• 23: Timothy Williamson: Vagueness in Reality

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0199284229
• ISBN 13: 9780199284221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 738
• Redattore: Loux Michael J., Zimmerman Dean W.