Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 2.
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this new series is a much-needed focus for it. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally...
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2006
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Table of 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.
