Particulars, actuality, and identity over time / edited, with an introduction by Michael Tooley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tooley, Michael, 1941-

Series:

Analytical metaphysics ; 4.

Analytical metaphysics ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Individuation (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xviii, 384 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Garland, 1999.

Contents:

The Nature of Particulars

Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity / Robert Merrihew Adams 1

Particulars

Bare and Qualified / William P. Alston 23

Another Look at Bare Particulars / Edwin B. Allaire 30

Substance Substantiated / C.B. Martin 37

Particulars in Particular Clothing: Three Trope Theories of Substance / Peter Simons 45

Three Versions of the Bundle Theory / James Van Cleve 69

Substance and Independent Existence

The Independence Criterion of Substance / Gary Rosenkrantz, Joshua Hoffman 83

Identity Over Time

Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis / W.V. Quine 103

Problems of Identity / Roderick M. Chisholm 117

Identity Through Time / D.M. Armstrong 133

Outline of a Theory of Individuation / David Wiggins 145

Is There a Problem About Persistance?

Part I / Mark Johnston 173

Part II / Graeme Forbes 203

Four-Dimensional Objects / Peter van Inwagen 223

Identity, Matter, and Motion

Excerpt from the Introduction: The Mind and its Place in Nature / C.D. Broad 234

Matter, Motion, and Humean Supervenience / Denis Robinson 238

Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines / Dean W. Zimmerman 255

Theories of Actuality

One of the Truths about Actuality / Allen Hazen 279

Anselm and Actuality / David Lewis 283

Indexicality and Actuality / Peter van Inwagen 297

Theories of Actuality / Robert Merrihew Adams 321

Actuality and Thisness / Robert Merrihew Adams 343.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0815330677

OCLC:

41278506