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Julian Dodd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology (2007) and An Identity Theory of Truth (2000), and co-editor of Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (2005).
Sources and Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | |
Personal Identity | |
Introduction | |
`Personal Identity' | |
Commentary on Parfit | |
`Personhood and Personal Identityrsquo | |
Commentary on Schechtman | |
Further Reading | |
Essay Questions | |
Free Will | |
Introduction | |
`The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism' | |
Commentary on van Inwagen | |
`Could Have Done Otherwise' (extract from Elbow Room) | |
Commentary on Dennett | |
Further Reading | |
Essay Questions | |
Appendix | |
Realism and Anti-realism | |
Introduction | |
`On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme' Commentary on Davidson | |
`Thought and Reality' (extract from The View from Nowhere) | |
Commentary on Nagel | |
Further reading | |
Essay questions | |
Realism and Nominalism | |
Introduction | |
`ldquo;Ostrich Nominalismrdquo; or ldquo;Mirage Realismrdquo;?' | |
Commentary on Devitt | |
`Against ldquo;Ostrichrdquo; Nominalism: A Reply to Michael Devitt' | |
Commentary on Armstrong | |
Further reading | |
Essay questions | |
Possible Worlds | |
Introduction | |
Extract from Counterfactuals | |
Commentary on Lewis | |
Extract from Naming and Necessity | |
Commentary on Kripke | |
Further reading | |
Essay questions | |
Persistence over Time | |
Introduction | |
Extract from On the Plurality of Worlds | |
Commentary on Lewis | |
`Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics' | |
Commentary on Haslanger | |
`Tensing the Copula' Commentary on Lewis | |
Further reading | |
Essay questions | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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