Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the firstedition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics ofmaterial objects. One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysicsanthologies available now updated and expanded Offers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysics Includes new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects, as well as readings on the topics of fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity, temporary intrinsics, stage theory, and composition Surpasses other anthologies in its combination of contributions from leading metaphysicians and a younger generation of rising-stars INDICE: Preface Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, Daniel Z. Korman Part I: Ontology 1. 'On What There Is': W. V. Quine. 2. 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology': Rudolf Carnap. 3. “Holes”: David and Stephanie Lewis 4. “Beyond Being and Nonbeing”: Roderick M. Chisholm 5. “Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?”: Stephen Yablo 6. “Fictional Objects”: Amie L. Thomasson 7. “On What Grounds What”: Jonathan Schaffer Part II: Identity 8. 'The Identity of Indiscernibles': Max Black9. 'Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity': Robert M. Adams 10. 'Identityand Necessity': Saul Kripke 11. 'Contingent Identity': Allan Gibbard 12. “CanThere Be Vague Objects?”: Gareth Evans 13. “Vague Identity”: Robert C. Stalnaker Part III: Modality 14. 'Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions': Alvin Plantinga 15. “Actualism and Thisness”: Robert M. Adams 16. “A Philosopher'sParadise: The Plurality of Worlds”: David Lewis 17. “Possible Worlds”: RobertC. Stalnaker 18. “Modal Fictionalism”: Gideon Rosen 19. “Essence and Modality”: Kit Fine Part IV: Properties 20. 'Natural Kinds': W. V. Quine 21. 'Causality and Properties': Sydney Shoemaker 22. “The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars”: Keith Campbell 23. 'New Work for a Theory of Universals': David Lewis 24. 'Universals as Attributes': D. M. Armstrong Part V: Causation 25. “On the Notion of Cause”: Bertrand Russell 26. “Causes and Conditions”: J.L. Mackie 27. “Causal Relations”: Donald Davidson 28. “Causality and Determination”: G.E.M. Anscombe 29. “Causation”: David Lewis 30. “Causal Connections”: Wesley C. Salmon31. “Causation: Reductionism Versus Realism”: Michael Tooley 32. “Two Concepts of Causation”: Ned Hall Part VI: Persistence 33. “Identity Through Time”: Roderick M. Chisholm 34. “Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis”: W. V. Quine 35. “Parthood and Identity Across Time”: Judith Jarvis Thomson 36. “Temporal Partsof Four-Dimensional Objects”: Mark Heller 37. “The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics”: David Lewis 38. “Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics”: Sally Haslanger 39. “All the World's a Stage”: Theodore Sider Part VII: Persons 40. “Persons and Their Pasts”: Sydney Shoemaker 41. “The Self and the Future”: Bernard Williams 42. “Personal Identity”: Derek Parfit 43. “Survival and Identity”: David Lewis 44. “Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism”: Jaegwon Kim 45. “TheOntological Status of Persons”: Lynne Rudder Baker 46. “An Argument for Animalism” Eric T. Olson Part VIII: Objects 47. “When are Objects Parts?” Peter vanInwagen 48. “Many But Almost One”: David Lewis 49. “Existential Relativity”: Ernest Sosa 50. “The Argument from Vagueness” Theodore Sider 51. “Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism” Trenton Merricks 52. “Against Revisionary Ontology”: Eli Hirsch 53. “Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness”: Daniel Z. Korman
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-3101-1
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
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- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2011
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