Metaphysics

Table of Contents. Preface. Part I: Existence: 1."On What There Is": W. V. Quine. 2."Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology": Rudolf Carnap. 3."Existence and Descriptions": Bertrand Russell. 4."Referring to Nonexistent Objects": Terence Parsons. 5."Ontological Relativity": W. V. Quine. Part II: Identity: 6."The Identity of Indiscernibles": Max Black. 7."Identity and Necessity": Saul Kripke. 8."The Same F": John Perry. 9."Contingent Identity": Allan Gibbard. 10."Identity, Essense, and Indiscernibility": Steohen Yablo. Part III: Modalities and Possible Worlds: 11."Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions": Alvin Plantinga. 12."Identity Through Possible Worlds": Roderick M. Chisolm. 13."Counterparts or Double Lives?": David Lewis. 14."Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity": Robert M. Adams. 15."The Nature of Possibility": D. M. Armstrong. Part IV: Universals, Properties, Kinds: 16."Universals as Attributes": D. M. Armstrong. 17."New Work for a Theory of Universals": David Lewis. 18."Natural Kinds": W. V. Quine. 19."On Properties": Hilary Putnam. 20."Causality and Properties": Sydney Shoemaker. Part V: Things and Their Persistence: 21."Identity Through Time": Roderick M. Chisolm. 22."Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis": W. V. Quine. 23."Scattered Objects": Richard Cartwright. 24."Parthood and Identity Across Time": Judith Jarvis Thomson. 25."Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects": Mark Heller. Part VI: The Persistence of the Self: 26."The Persistence of Persons": Roderick M. Chisolm. 27."Persons and Their Pasts": Sydney Shoemaker. 28."The Self and the Future": Bernard Williams. 29."Personal Identity": Derek Parfit. 30."Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory": Richard Swinburne. 31."Human Beings": Mark Johnston. Part VII: Causation: 32."Causes and Conditions": J. L. Mackie. 33."Causal Relations": Donald Davidson. 34."Causation": David Lewis. 35."Causal Connections": Wesley C. Salmon. 36."The Nature of Causation: A Singularist Account": Michael Tooley. Part VIII: Emergence, Reduction, Supervenience: 37."Mechanism and Emergentism": C. D. Broad. 38."Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers": W. V. Quine. 39."Special Sciences": Jerry A. Fodor. 40."Multiple Realization and the Metaphysics of Reduction": Jaegwon Kim. 41."Physicalism: Ontology, Reduction, and Determinism": Geoffrey Hellman and Frank Thompson. 42."Supervenience as a Philosophical Concept": Jaegwon Kim. Part IX: Determinism, Fatalism, Agency: 43."Defining Determinism": John Earman. 44."Fatalism": Richard Taylor. 45."Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person": Harry G. Frankfurt. 46."Can the Will be Caused?": Carl Ginet. 47."Choice and Indeterminism": Robert Nozick. Part X: Realism / Antirealism: 48."Realism": Michael Dummett. 49."Pragmatic Realism": Hilary Putnam. 50."Putnam's Pragmatic Realism": Ernest Sosa. 51."Yes, Virginia, There is a Real World": William P. Alston. 52."Morals and Modals": Simon Blackburn. 53."Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism": Crispin Wright. Index.