The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics

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 there is': what kinds of things there are, and what relations hold among entities falling under various categories. 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.

Contains essays about 'what there is': what kinds of things there are, and what relations hold among entities falling under various categories. This title discusses topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness. It is designed as a reference for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum.

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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

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