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The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities
and social sciences.The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. Twenty-four of the world's most
distinguished specialists provide brand-new essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the latest word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness. The Handbook's unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum.
The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities
and social sciences.The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. Twenty-four of the world's most
distinguished specialists provide brand-new essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the latest word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness. The Handbook's unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum.
Introduction
I. Universals and Particulars1: Zoltan Gendler Szabo:
Nominalism
2: Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz: Platonistic Theories of
Universals
3: E. J. Lowe: Individuation
II. Existence and Identity4: John Hawthorne: Identity
5: Peter van Inwagen: Existence, Ontological Commitment, and
Fictional Entities
III. Modality and Possible Worlds6: Kit Fine: The Reduction of
Possiblia
7: Theodore Sider: Reductive Theories of Modality
IV. Time, Space-Time, and Persistence8: Thomas M. Crisp:
Presentism
9: Michael C. Rea: Four-Dimensionalism
10: Graham Nerlich: Space-Time Substantivalism
11: Sally Haslanger: Persistence through Time
V. Events, Causation, and Physics12: Peter Simons: Events
13: Michael Tooley: Causation and Supervenience
14: Hartry Field: Causation in a Physical World
15: Tim Maudlin: Distilling Metaphysics from Quantum Mechanics
VI. Persons and the Nature of Mind16: Dean W. Zimmerman: Material
People
17: Howard Robinson: The Ontology of the Mental
18: Jaegwon Kim: Supervenience, Emergence, Realization,
Reduction
VII. Freedom of the Will19: Carl Ginet: Libertarianism
20: Ted Warfield: Compatibilism
VIII. Anti-Realism and Vagueness21: Michael J. Loux: Dummett on
Realism and Anti-Realism
22: Ernest Sosa: Ontological and Conceptual Relativity and the
Self
23: Timothy Williamson: Vagueness in Reality
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