Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 2

• Main Author: Zimmerman, Dean
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2006; Oxford University Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Metaphysics; Philosophy

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...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- 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. Supervenience -- 10. 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