John Hawthorne

Metaphysical Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780199291243
• ISBN-10: 0199291241
• Artikelnr.: 22146746

Autorenporträt

John Hawthorne, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Contributors: John Hawthorne & Theodore Sider John Hawthorne, Ryan Wasserman, and Mark Scala John Hawthorne and Frank Arntzenius John Hawthorne and Daniel Nolan

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Identity
* 2: John Hawthorne and Theodore Sider: Locations
* 3: Plenitude, convention, and ontology
* 4: John Hawthorne, Ryan Wasserman, and Mark Scala: Recombination,
causal constraints, and Humean supervenience: an argument for
temporal parts?
* 5: Three dimensionalism
* 6: Motion and plenitude
* 7: John Hawthorne and Frank Arntzenius: Gunk and continuous variation
* 8: Vagueness and the mind of God
* 9: Epistemicism and semantic plasticity
* 10: Causal structuralism
* 11: Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics
* 12: Determinism de re
* 13: Why Humeans are out of their minds
* 14: Chance and counterfactuals
* 15: John Hawthorne and Daniel Nolan: Which would teleological
causation be?
* 16: Before-effect and Zeno causality