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Arguing About Metaphysics
July 1, 2008, Routledge
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First Sentence
"The field of metaphysics and its characteristic puzzles occupy a central place both in the history of philosophy and on the current philosophical landscape."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Page xi
General Introduction
Page 1
1.
On What There Is
Page 7
Introduction to Part 1
Page 9
1.
On What There Is (Willard Van Orman Quine)
Page 11
2.
Nominalist Things (Henry Fitzgerald)
Page 22
3.
A Theory of Properties (Peter van Inwagen)
Page 24
4.
A World of States of Affairs (D. M. Armstrong)
Page 45
5.
Holes (David Lewis and Stephanie Lewis)
Page 54
6.
On What There Is Not (Richard Routley)
Page 59
7.
Truth in Fiction (David Lewis)
Page 78
8.
I Do Not Exist (Peter Unger)
Page 94
2.
Time and Time Travel
Page 107
Introduction to Part 2
Page 109
9.
The Time Traveller's Speech (H. G. Wells)
Page 113
10.
Einstein's Dreams (Alan Lightman)
Page 116
11.
Thank Goodness That's Over (A. N. Prior)
Page 122
12.
A Defense of Presentism (Ned Markosian)
Page 127
13.
The Metaphysics of Now (Paul Horwich)
Page 151
14.
The Myth of Passage (Donald C. Williams)
Page 167
15.
"—All You Zombies—" (Robert Heinlein)
Page 178
16.
Absolutely Inflexible (Robert Silverberg)
Page 186
17.
The Paradoxes of Time Travel (David Lewis)
Page 193
18.
No End in Sight: Causal Loops in PHilosophy, Physics and Fiction (Richard Hanley)
Page 203
3.
Change and Identity
Page 225
Introduction to Part 3
Page 227
19.
Problems About Change: Selections from the Writings of Parmenides and David Lews (Parmenides and David Lewis)
Page 231
20.
How to Reidentify the Ship of Theseus (Brian Smart)
Page 236
21.
Identity and Temporal Parts (Roderick Chisholm)
Page 239
22.
Temporal Parts of Four Dimensional Objects (Mark Heller)
Page 264
23.
Dust (Greg Egan)
Page 272
24.
Second Person, Present Tense (Daryl Gregory)
Page 292
25.
Personal Identity (Derek Parfit)
Page 305
26.
An Argument for Animalism (Eric T. Olson)
Page 320
4.
Freedom
Page 333
Introduction to Part 4
Page 335
27.
The Satyr (Stephen Robinett)
Page 337
28.
What's Expected of Us (Ted Chiang)
Page 347
29.
The Story of Osmo (Richard Taylor)
Page 349
30.
Fatalism (Peter van Inwagen)
Page 351
31.
Two Concepts of Freedom (William L. Rowe)
Page 372
32.
Freedom Within Reason (Susan Wolf)
Page 387
33.
Determinism Al Dente (Derk Pereboom)
Page 399
34.
The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom (Peter van Inwagen)
Page 420
35.
Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility (Harry G. Frankfurt)
Page 428
5.
Worlds and Worldmaking
Page 435
Introduction to Part 5
Page 437
36.
Parallel Universes (Max Tegmark)
Page 441
37.
World Ensemble, or Design (John Leslie)
Page 451
38.
The Tree of Life: Agency and Immorality in a Metaphysics Inspired by Quantum Theory (Peter Forrest)
Page 469
39.
A Philosopher's Paradise (David Lewis)
Page 483
40.
Two Concepts of Modality: Modal Realism and Modal Reductionism (Alvin Plantinga)
Page 518
41.
Words, Works, Worlds (Nelson Goodman)
Page 545
Index
Page 557
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