Material Constitution
A Reader
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
1st Edition
Published on 6. January 1997
200 pages
978-1-4616-3919-0 (ISBN)
Description
The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-3919-0 (9781461639190)
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword Peter van Inwagen
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Michael C. Rea
- Part I: Coincident Entities
- 1 On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time David Wiggins
- 2 Spatially Coinciding Objects Frederick C. Doepke
- 3 Parthood and Identity Across Time Judith Jarvis Thomson
- 4 Constitution Is Not Identity Mark Johnston
- 5 Subjects Among Other Things Ernest Sosa
- Part II: Contingent Identity and Counterpart Theory
- 6 Contingent Identity Allan Gibbard
- 7 Counterparts or Double Lives? (Selections) David Lewis
- 8 Identity and Time George Myro
- Part III: EIiminativism and Dominant Kinds
- 9 I Do Not Exist Peter Unger
- 10 The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts Peter Van Inwagen
- 11 Identity through Time Roderick M. Chisholm
- 12 Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place: A Novel Account of the Relations Among Objects, Sorts, Sortals, and Persistence Conditions Michael B. Burke
- Part IV: Indeterminacy Solutions
- 13 Entities Without Identity Terence Parsons
- 14 De Re Modality Entails De Re Vagueness Frances Howard-Snyder
- Part V: Relative Identity and Temporal Parts
- 15 Reference and Generality (Selections) Peter T. Geach
- 16 Constitutivity and Identity Hugh S. Chandler
- 17 Temporal Parts of Four Dimensional Objects Mark Heller
- Appendix: A Formal Statement of the Problem
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- About the Contributors
