
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 1
Volume 1
Dean Zimmerman(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 8. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
348 pages
978-0-19-926773-6 (ISBN)
Description
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a major new series dedicated to the timely publication of new work in this highly fertile field of philosophy. The subject is broadly construed, taken to include not only perennially central topics (modality, ontology, and mereology; metaphysical theories of causation, laws of nature, persistence through time, and time itself; and realism and anti-realism in the many senses of these terms); but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions that open up within other subfields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science (questions about supervenience and materialism, the nature of qualia, mental causation, metaphysical implications of relativity and quantum physics, mereological theories of biological species, and so on). Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. Each future volume shall also include an essay by the winner of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics younger scholar award, a prize inaugurated with this first issue.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous figs
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-926773-6 (9780199267736)
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Book
01/2004
Oxford University Press
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Person
Zimmerman, Dean (Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
Content
I. PRESENTISM ; 1. Tensed Qualifiers ; 2. A Defense of Presentism ; 3. Symposium: Defining Presentism ; On Presentism and Triviality ; Presentism, Triviality, and the Varieties of Tensism ; Reply to Ludlow ; 4. Presentism and Truthmaking ; II. UNIVERSALS ; 5. A Theory of Properties ; 6. How Do Particulars Stand to Universals? ; 7. Non-symmetric Relations ; III. FREEDOM, CAUSAL POWERS, AND CAUSATION ; 8. The Mental Problems of the Many ; 9. Properties and Powers ; 10. The Intrinsic Character of Causation ; 11. Recombination, Causal Constraints, and Humean Supervenience: An Argument for Temporal Parts?