Metaphysical essays / / John Hawthorne

• Autore: Hawthorne John (John P.)
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 110
• Soggetto topico: Metaphysics; Philosophy
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Metaphysical essays
• ISBN: 0-19-171061-X; 1-280-87018-4; 0-19-153756-X; 1-4356-0723-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822859703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II