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Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 13

English · Hardback

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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.

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  • I. PARTS AND PLURALITIES

  • 1: Peter van Inwagen: Paraphrase Techniques for Nihilists

  • 2: Simon Thunder: Composite Objects Are Mere Manys

  • 3: Joshua Spencer: A Special Composition Puzzle

  • II. CAUSATION, COUNTERFACTUALS, AND ESSENCES

  • 4: Bradford Skow: The Varieties of Relevance

  • 5: John Hawthorne and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri: Counterpart Theory and Counterfactuals

  • 6: Sungil Han: Essence and Thisness

  • III. TIME, CHANGE, AND PERSISTENCE

  • 7: Kristie Miller and Caroline West: Prudence and Perdurance

  • 8: Martin Pickup: The Situationalist Account of Change

  • 9: Alexander Kaiserman: The Logic of Past-Alteration



About the author

Karen Bennett is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University

Dean W. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University

Summary

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.

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