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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822859703321

Autore

Hawthorne John (John P.)

Titolo

Metaphysical essays / / John Hawthorne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon, 2006

ISBN

0-19-171061-X

1-280-87018-4

0-19-153756-X

1-4356-0723-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction and Acknowledgements; 1. Identity; 2. Locations; 3. Plenitude, Convention, and Ontology; 4. Recombination, Causal Constraints, and Humean Supervenience: An Argument for Temporal Parts?; 5. Three-Dimensionalism; 6. Motion and Plenitude; 7. Gunk and Continuous Variation; 8. Vagueness and the Mind of God; 9. Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity; 10. Causal Structuralism; 11. Quantity in Lewisian Metaphysics; 12. Determinism De Re; 13. Why Humeans Are Out of Their Minds; 14. Chance and Counterfactuals; 15. What Would Teleological Causation Be?

16. Before-Effect and Zeno CausalityIndex

Sommario/riassunto

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection. - ;John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributio