Material Constitution A Reader

by Rea, Michael; Burke, Michael B.; Chandler. Roderick M. Chisholm, Hugh S.; Doepke, Frederick C.; Geach, Peter T.; Gibbard, Allan; Heller, Mark; Howard-Snyder, Frances; Inwagen, Peter van; Johnston, Mark; Lewis, David; Myro, George; Parsons, Terence; Sosa,

• ISBN13: 9780847683840
• ISBN10: 0847683842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	p. 3
Spatially Coinciding Objects	p. 10
Parthood and Identity Across Time	p. 25
Constitution Is Not Identity	p. 44
Subjects Among Other Things	p. 63
Contingent Identity	p. 93
Counterparts or Double Lives? (Selections)	p. 126
Identity and Time	p. 148
I Do Not Exist	p. 175
The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts	p. 191
Identity through Time	p. 209
Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place: A Novel Account of the Relations Among Objects, Sorts, Sortals, and Persistence Conditions	p. 236
Entities Without Identity	p. 273
De Re Modality Entails De Re Vagueness	p. 290
Reference and Generality (Selections)	p. 305
Constitutivity and Identity	p. 313
Temporal Parts of Four Dimensional Objects	p. 320
A Formal Statement of the Problem	p. 331
Select Bibliography	p. 333
Index	p. 343
About the Contributors	p. 349
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