The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics

by Michael J. Loux (Editor), Dean W. Zimmerman (Editor)

Overview

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 unrivaled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199284221
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/03/2005
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	738
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 6.82(h) x 1.47(d)

About the Author

University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Rutgers University, New Jersey

Table of Contents

Introduction1. I. Universals and Particulars, Zoltan Gendler Szabo2. Platonistic Theories of Universals, Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz3. Individuation, E. J. Lowe4. II. Existence and Identity, John Hawthorne5. Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities, Peter van Inwagen6. III. Modality and Possible Worlds, Kit Fine7. Reductive Theories of Modality, Theodore Sider8. IV. Time, Space-Time, and Persistence, Thomas M. Crisp9. Four-Dimensionalism, Michael C. Rea10. Space-Time Substantivalism, Graham Nerlich11. Persistence through Time, Sally Haslanger12. V. Events, Causation, and Physics, Peter Simons13. Causation and Supervenience, Michael Tooley14. Causation in a Physical World, Hartry Field15. Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics, Tim Maudlin16. VI. Persons and the Nature of Mind, Dean W. Zimmerman17. The Ontology of the Mental, Howard Robinson18. Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction, Jaegwon Kim19. VII. Freedom of the Will, Carl Ginet20. Compatibilism, Ted Warfield21. VIII. Anti-Realism and Vagueness, Michael J. Loux22. Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self, Ernest Sosa23. Vagueness in Reality, Timothy Williamson