Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 11

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.

List of contents

• I: Relationism and Substantivalism


• 1: Jill North: The Structure of Spacetime: A New Approach to the Spacetime Ontology Debate


• 2: Andrew Bacon: Relative Locations


• II: Time and Change


• 3: Martin Lipman: A Passage Theory of Time


• 4: Jonathan Simon: Fragmenting the Wave Function


• III: Recombination, Relations, and Supervenience


• 5: Jeffrey Sanford Russell and John Hawthorne: Possible Patterns


• 6: T. Scott Dixon: Plural Slot Theory


• 7: Elizabeth Miller: Local Qualities


• Part IV: Vagueness


• 8: Rohan Sud: Vague Naturalness as Ersatz Metaphysical Vagueness


• 9: Roberto Loss: Against 'Against "Against Vague Existence"'

About the author

Karen Bennett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.

Dean W. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Summary

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philsophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here.

Product details

• Authors: Karen (Professor of Philosophy Bennett
• Assisted by: Karen Bennett (Editor), Karen (Professor of Philosophy Bennett (Editor), Bennett Karen (Editor), Dean W. Zimmerman (Editor), Dean W. (Professor of Philosophy Zimmerman (Editor), Zimmerman Dean W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780198828198
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882819-8
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Oxford Studies in Metaphysics; Oxford Studies in Metaphysics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology