Metaphysical Essays

by John Hawthorne

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199291243
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	9.16(w) x 6.36(h) x 0.67(d)

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Oxford University

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Identity2. Locations, John Hawthorne & Theodore Sider3. Plenitude, convention, and ontology4. Recombination, causal constraints, and Humean supervenience: an argument for temporal parts?, John Hawthorne, Ryan Wasserman, and Mark Scala5. Three dimensionalism6. Motion and plenitude7. Gunk and continuous variation, John Hawthorne and Frank Arntzenius8. Vagueness and the mind of God9. Epistemicism and semantic plasticity10. Causal structuralism11. Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics12. Determinism de re13. Why Humeans are out of their minds14. Chance and counterfactuals15. Which would teleological causation be?, John Hawthorne and Daniel Nolan16. Before-effect and Zeno causality