Metaphysics An Anthology

by Kim, Jaekwon; Korman, Daniel Z.; Sosa, Ernest

• ISBN13: 9781444331011
• ISBN10: 1444331019
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 first edition, it presents entirely new sections on the metaphysics of material objects and the philosophy of time.One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies 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"

Author Biography

Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University Daniel Z. Korman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign. Ernest Sosa taught from 1964 to 2007 at Brown University, and is currently Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Source Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Ontology	p. 1
On What There Is	p. 7
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology	p. 16
Holes	p. 27
Beyond Being and Nonbeing	p. 32
Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?	p. 40
If We Postulated Fictional Objects, What Would They Be?	p. 59
On What Grounds What	p. 73
Identity	p. 97
The Identity of Indiscernibles	p. 103
Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity	p. 109
Identity and Necessity	p. 122
Contingent Identity	p. 141
Can There Be Vague Objects?	p. 158
Vague Identity	p. 159
Modality	p. 167
Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions	p. 173
Actualism and Thisness	p. 187
A Philosopher's Paradise	p. 208
Possible Worlds	p. 230
Modal Fictionalism	p. 236
Essence and Modality	p. 255
Properties	p. 267
Natural Kinds	p. 271
Causality and Properties	p. 281
The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars	p. 298
New Work for a Theory of Universals	p. 307
Universals as Attributes	p. 322
Causation	p. 345
On the Notion of Cause	p. 351
Causes and Conditions	p. 362
Causal Relations .	p. 378
Causality and Determination	p. 386
Causation	p. 397
Causal Connections	p. 405
Causation: Reductionism Versus Realism	p. 419
Two Concepts of Causation	p. 432
Persistence	p. 455
Identity through Time	p. 461
Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis	p. 472
Parthood and Identity Across Time	p. 480
Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects	p. 492
The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics	p. 504
Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics	p. 506
All the World's a Stage	p. 511
Persons	p. 527
Persons and their Pasts	p. 533
The Self and the Future	p. 552
Personal Identity	p. 562
Survival and Identity	p. 575
Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism	p. 588
The Ontological Status of Persons	p. 597
An Argument for Animalism	p. 610
Objects	p. 621
When are Objects Parts?	p. 627
Many, But Almost One	p. 642
Existential Relativity	p. 652
The Argument from Vagueness	p. 661
Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism	p. 673
Against Revisionary Ontology	p. 686
Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness	p. 703
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