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The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics

Richard M. Gale (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-22120-3
Hardcover
360 pages
July 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Contributors.

Preface.

1. Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics: Lawrence Sklar.

2. Causation: Wesley Salmon.

3. What Events Are: Jonathan Bennett.

4. Time, Temporality and Paradox, Richard M. Gale.

5. A Thomist Metaphysics: John Haldane.

6. The Concept of Ontological Catergory: a New Approach: Lorenz Puntel.

7. Universals and Predication: Bruce Aune.

8. Composition as a Fiction: Gideon Rosen and Cian Dorr.

9. What Do We Refer To When We Say 'I'? Peter van Inwagen.

10. Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of 'What Matters': Jennifer E. Whiting.

11. Idealism: T.L.S. Sprigge.

12. An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism and Justifcatory Idealism: Nichlas Rescher.

13. Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: The Basic Argument of 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind': Robert Brandom.

14. Metaphysical Realism and Logical Nonrealism: Panayot Butchvarov.

15. The Metaphysics of Possibilia: William Lycan.

16. The Actual and the Possible: Alexander Pruss.

Index.