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964536
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b718906
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Hawthorne, John, (John P.)
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Metaphysical essays /\ John Hawthorne.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon,, 2006.
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1 online resource (x, 299 pages)
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019171061X
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: 1280870184
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: 1435607236
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: 9780191710612
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: 9781280870187
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: 9781435607231
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0199291233
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0199291241
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9780199291236
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9780199291243
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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Site viewed on August 15, 2008.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Identity -- Locations / with Theodore Sider -- Plenitude, convention, and ontology -- Recombination, causal constraints, and humean supervenience : an argument for temporal parts? / with Ryan Wasserman and Mark Scala -- Three-dimensionalism -- Motion and plenitude -- Gunk and continuous variation / with Frank Arntzenius -- Vagueness and the mind of God -- Epistemicism and semantic plasticity -- Causal structuralism -- Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics -- Determinism de re -- Why humeans are out of their minds -- Chance and counterfactuals -- What would teleological causation be? / with Daniel Nolan -- Before-effect and Zeno causality.
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Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.
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Metaphysics.
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Métaphysique.
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Metaphysics.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Metaphysics.
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Metafysica.
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| Dewey Classification
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110
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| LC Classification
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BD111.H38 2006eb
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Coutts Information Service.
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