Metaphysics, 1996 / edited by James E. Tomberlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomberlin, James E., 1942-

Series:

Philosophical perspectives ; 10.

Philosophical perspectives, 0029-4624 ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vii, 499 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, [1996]

Contents:

On the possibility of philosophical knowledge / George Bealer

Presentism and properties / John Bigelow

In defense of Aristotelian actualism / Gregory W. Fitch

Logic, logical form, and the open future / Graeme Forbes

Absolute necessities / Bob Hale

The puzzle of change / Mark Hinchliff

Some of a polarity / Helen Morris Cartwright

The metaphysics of nonfactualism / Michael Devitt

Against metaphysical vagueness / Mark Heller

Realism and truth / Paul Horwich

The primary quality view of color / Frank Jackson

Varieties of supervenience / Robert Stalnaker

Theories of properties : from plenitude to paucity / Chris Swoyer

Modest transcendental arguments / Anthony Brueckner

Analyticity, Carnap, Quine, and truth / Marian David

Reflections on relativism : from momentous tautology to seductive contradiction / Susan Haack

Ontological commitment : between Quine and Duhem / Penelope Maddy

The myth of identity conditions / Michael Jubien

On a certain antinomy : properties, concepts and items in space / Jay Rosenberg

The solution to the problem of the freedom of the will / John Dupré

In defense of the principle of alternative possibilities : why I don't find Frankfurt's argument convincing / Carl A. Ginet

Modal principles in the metaphysics of free will / Tomis Kapitan

Aquinas on what could have been / Richard Cartwright

Stoic individuals / T.H. Irwin

Leibniz's first theodicy / Robert C. Sleigh

Notes:

"A supplement to Noûs"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1577181158

9781577181156

1577181166

9781577181163

OCLC:

36134849