
Oxford Studies in Metaphysics
Volume 4
Dean Zimmerman(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 22. May 2008
Book
Hardback
334 pages
978-0-19-954298-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. 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. A special feature of this volume is an unpublished paper on nominalism by W. V. Quine, arguably the most influential figure in philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. It is accompanied by five specially commissioned commentaries. Topics discussed by other papers in this volume include ontology, location, truthmaking, and physicalism. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here.
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
543 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-954298-7 (9780199542987)
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Dean W. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Content
I. QUINE'S 1946 LECTURE ON NOMINALISM: A SYMPOSIUM ; 1. Nominalism ; 2. Quine and Tarski on Nominalism ; 3. Cats, Dogs, and So On ; 4. Quine's Lecture on Nominalism From the Perspective of a Nominalist ; 5. A World of Concrete Particulars ; 6. Quine's 1946 Lecture on Nominalism ; II. SOME PRINCIPLES CONCERNING DEPENDENCE AND NECESSITY ; 7. Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism ; 8. Truthmakers and Predication ; 9. On Locating Composite Objects ; III. GUNK AND BLOBS ; 10. Gunk, Topology and Measure ; 11. The Structure of Gunk: Adventures in the Ontology of Space ; 12. Beware the Blob: Cautions for Would-Be Metaphysicians