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" Contemporary debates in metaphysics / "
edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman
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BL
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642136
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Contemporary debates in metaphysics /\ edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman
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| Publication Statement
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Malden, MA :: Blackwell Pub.,, 2008
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Contemporary debates in philosophy ;
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ix, 404 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm
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9781405112284 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 140511228X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9781405112291 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1405112298 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Abstract entities -- Abstract entities / Chris Swoyer -- There are no abstract objects / Cian Dorr -- Causation and laws of nature -- Nailed to Hume's cross? / John W. Carroll -- Causation and laws of nature : reductionism / Jonathan Schaffer -- Modality and possible worlds -- Concrete possible worlds / Phillip Bricker -- Ersatz possible worlds / Joseph Melia -- Personal identity -- People and their bodies / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Persons, bodies, and human beings / Derek Parfit -- Time -- The privileged present : defending an "a-theory" of time / Dean Zimmerman -- The tenseless theory of time / J.J.C. Smart -- Persistence -- Temporal parts / Theodore Sider -- Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism / John Hawthorne -- Free will -- Incompatibilism / Robert Kane -- Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism / Kadri Vihvelin -- Mereology -- The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism / James van Cleve -- Restricted composition / Ned Markosian -- Meteontology -- Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance / Eli Hirsch -- The picture of reality as an amorphous lump / Matti Eklund
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Metaphysics
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BD95.C66 2008
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BD95.C66 2008
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Sider, Theodore
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Hawthorne, John, (John P.)
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Zimmerman, Dean W
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