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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Contains essays about 'what there is': what kinds of things there are, and what relations hold among entities falling under various categories. This title discusses topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness. It is designed as a reference for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Zoltan Gendler Szabo: Nominalism 2: Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz: Platonistic Theories of Universals 3: E. J. Lowe: Individuation 4: John Hawthorne: Identity 5: Peter van Inwagen: Existence, Ontological Commitment, and Fictional Entities 6: Kit Fine: The Reduction of Possiblia 7: Theodore Sider: Reductive Theories of Modality 8: Thomas M. Crisp: Presentism 9: Michael C. Rea: Four-Dimensionalism 10: Graham Nerlich: Space-Time Substantivalism 11: Sally Haslanger: Persistence through Time 12: Peter Simons: Events 13: Michael Tooley: Causation and Supervenience 14: Hartry Field: Causation in a Physical World 15: Tim Maudlin: Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics 16: Dean W. Zimmerman: Material People 17: Howard Robinson: The Ontology of the Mental 18: Jaegwon Kim: Supervenience, Emergence, Realization, Reduction 19: Carl Ginet: Libertarianism 20: Ted Warfield: Compatibilism 21: Michael J. Loux: Dummett on Realism and Anti-Realism 22: Ernest Sosa: Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the Self 23: Timothy Williamson: Vagueness in Reality ...
