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Preface | |
Introduction: What is Metaphysics? | |
What are the most General Features of the World? | |
Introduction | |
What is the Relationship between an Individual and its Characteristics? | |
Universals and Resemblances Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience | |
The Elements of Being | |
The Principle of Individuation: An Excerpt from Human Knowledge, its Scope and Limits | |
Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory | |
What is Time? What is Space? | |
Time: an Excerpt from The Nature of Existence | |
McTaggart's Arguments against the Reality of Time: An Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy | |
The Notion of the Present | |
The General Problem of Time and Change: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
The Space-Time World: An Excerpt from Philosophy and Scientific Realism | |
Topis, Soris, Noris: An Excerpt from The Existence of Space and Time | |
Some Free Thinking about Time | |
The Fourth Dimension: An Excerpt from The Ambidextrous Universe | |
Incongruent Counterparts and Higher Dimensions | |
Achilles and the Tortoise | |
A Contemporary Look at Zeno's Paradoxes: An Excerpt from Space, Time and Motion | |
Grasping the Infinite | |
The Paradoxes of Time Travel | |
How do things Persist through Changes of Parts and Properties? | |
Of Confused Subjects which are Equivalent to Two Subjects: An Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic | |
Identity Through Time | |
Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis | |
Identity: an Excerpt From Quiddities | |
In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to 'Survival and identity' | |
Some Problems About Time | |
The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics: An Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds | |
Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism | |
How do Causes Bring about their Effects? | |
Constant Conjunction: an excerpt from A Treatise of Human Nature | |
Efficient Cause and Active Power: An excerpt from Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind | |
Psychological and Physical Causal Laws: An Excerpt from The Analysis of Mind | |
Causality: an Excerpt from A Modern Introduction to Logic | |
Causality and Determination | |
What is our Place in the World? | |
Introduction | |
How is the Appearance of a Thing Related to the Thing that Appears? | |
The Theory of Sensa: An Excerpt from Scientific Thought | |
Qualities: An Excerpt from Consciousness and Causality | |
The Status of Appearances: An Excerpt from Theory of Knowledge, 1st edition | |
What is the Relation Between Mind and Body? | |
Which Physical Thing am I? An Excerpt From 'Is There a Mind Body Problem?' (Roderick M. Chisholm | |
Personal Identity: a Materialist Account | |
Dividend Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
Body and Soul: An Excerpt from The Evolution of the Soul | |
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience | |
Is it Possible for us to Act Freely? | |
Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable Without it | |
Human Freedom and the Self | |
The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom | |
The Agent as Cause | |
Is There Just One World? | |
Introduction | |
Speaking of Objects | |
After Metaphysics | |
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