Metaphysical essays / John Hawthorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, John (John P.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 299 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Identity

Locations / with Theodore Sider

Plenitude, convention, and ontology

Recombination, causal constraints, and Humean supervenience : an argument for temporal parts? / with Ryan Wasserman and Mark Scala

Three-dimensionalism

Motion and plenitude

Gunk and continuous variation / with Frank Arntzenius

Vagueness and the mind of God

Epistemicism and semantic plasticity

Causal structuralism

Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics

Determinism de re

Why Humeans are out of their minds

Chance and counterfactuals

What would teleological causation be? / with Daniel Nolan

Before-effect and Zeno causality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-171061-X

1-280-87018-4

0-19-153756-X

1-4356-0723-6

OCLC:

466434038