Oxford studies in metaphysics. Vol. 2 / editor, Dean Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zimmerman, Dean W., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Other Title:

Studies in metaphysics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The second volume of a series that acts as a forum for new works in the field of metaphysics. The collection offers a broad overview of the subject and features traditional topics as well as questions from neighbouring fields such as the philosophies of mind and science.

Contents:

Contents; Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Younger Scholar Prize Announcement; I. SYMPOSIUM: PROPERTY DUALISM; 1. Max Black's Objection to Mind-Body Identity; 2. Mary and Max and Jack and Ned; 3. A Posteriori Identities and the Requirements of Rationality; II. THE OPEN FUTURE; 4. Goodbye Growing Block; 5. Rashi's View of the Open Future: Indeterminateness and Bivalence; 6. General Facts, Physical Necessity, and the Metaphysics of Time; III. ISSUES IN ONTOLOGY; 7. Inexpressible Properties and Propositions; 8. Aristotle's Constituent Ontology

9. The Relation between General and Particular: Entailment vs. Supervenience10. Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity; IV. METAPHYSICS AND THEISM; 11. God and the Problem of Universals; 12. A Theistic Argument against Platonism (and in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity); 13. Beautiful Evils; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04366-3

1-280-75628-4

0-19-153738-1

0-19-151615-5

1-4294-2211-4

OCLC:

437109509