Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of Philosophical research. Volume 20 contains eighteen new articles on various metaphysical issues. Some of the top minds in the profession explore such topics as infinity and causation, the nature and epistemology of modality, the persistence of objects through relativistic time, and more.
Philosophical Perspectives, an annual, aims to publish original essays by foremost thinkers in their fields, with each volume confined to a main area of Philosophical research. Volume 20 contains eighteen new articles on various metaphysical issues. Some of the top minds in the profession explore such topics as infinity and causation, the nature and epistemology of modality, the persistence of objects through relativistic time, and more.
John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has published numerous articles on metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and early modern philosophy. His books include Knowledge and Lotteries, Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (with Jan Cover, 1999), and The Grammar of Meaning (with Mark Lance, 1997).
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I FRANK ARNTZENIUS, Infinity Relativity and Smoothness 1.
II GEORGE BEALER, A Definition of Necessity 17.
III PHILIP BRICKER, Absolute Actuality and The Plurality ofWorlds 41.
IV BERIT BROGAARD, Two Modal-Isms: Fictionalism andErsatzism 77.
V MATTI EKLUND, Neo-Fregean Ontology 95.
VI ALEX OLIVER & TIMOTHY SMILEY, What Are Sets and What AreThey For? 123.
VII IAN GIBSON & OLIVER POOLEY, Relativistic Persistence157.
VIII CODY GILMORE, Where in the Relativistic World Are We?199.
IX BORIS KMENT, Counterfactuals and the Analysis of Necessity237.
X KRIS MCDANIEL, Modal Realisms 303.
XI L. A. PAUL, In Defense of Essentialism 333.
XII CAROLINA SARTORIO, Failures to Act and Failures ofAdditivity 373.
XIII THEODORE SIDER, "Bare Particulars" 387.
XIV ZOLT´AN GENDLER SZAB´O, Counting Across Times399.
XV GABRIEL UZQUIANO, Receptacles 427.
XVI PETER VAN INWAGEN, Names for Relations 453.
XVII BRIAN WEATHERSON, The Asymmetric Magnets Problem 479.
