Dean Zimmerman

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 4

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. A special feature of this volume is an unpublished paper on nominalism by W. V. Quine, arguably the most influential figure in philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. It is accompanied by five specially commissioned commentaries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780199542994
• ISBN-10: 0199542996
• Artikelnr.: 24766714

Autorenporträt

Dean W. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

* I. QUINE'S 1946 LECTURE ON NOMINALISM: A SYMPOSIUM
* 1: Willard Van Orman Quine: Nominalism
* 2: Paolo Mancosu: Quine and Tarski on Nominalism
* 3: John P. Burgess: Cats, Dogs, and So On
* 4: Charles Chihara: Quine's Lecture on Nominalism From the
Perspective of a Nominalist
* 5: Joseph Melia: A World of Concrete Particulars
* 6: Peter van Inwagen: Quine's 1946 Lecture on Nominalism
* II. SOME PRINCIPLES CONCERNING DEPENDENCE AND NECESSITY
* 7: Stephan Leuenberger: Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism
* 8: Daniel Nolan: Truthmakers and Predication
* 9: Jacek Brzozowski: On Locating Composite Objects
* III. GUNK AND BLOBS
* 10: Frank Arntzenius: Gunk, Topology and Measure
* 11: Jeffrey T. Russell: The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the
Ontology of Space
* 12: Mark Wilson: Beware the Blob: Cautions for Would-Be
Metaphysicians