Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics (eBook)

Richard M. Gale is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of On the Nature and Existence of God (1991) and The Divided Self of William James (1999).

List of Contributors.

Preface.

1. Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics:
Lawrence Sklar.

2. Causation: Wesley Salmon.

3. What Events Are: Jonathan Bennett.

4. Time, Temporality and Paradox, Richard M. Gale.

5. A Thomist Metaphysics: John Haldane.

6. The Concept of Ontological Catergory: a New Approach: Lorenz
Puntel.

7. Universals and Predication: Bruce Aune.

8. Composition as a Fiction: Gideon Rosen and Cian Dorr.

9. What Do We Refer To When We Say 'I'? Peter van Inwagen.

10. Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of 'What Matters':
Jennifer E. Whiting.

11. Idealism: T.L.S. Sprigge.

12. An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism and
Justifcatory Idealism: Nichlas Rescher.

13. Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: The Basic
Argument of 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind': Robert
Brandom.

14. Metaphysical Realism and Logical Nonrealism: Panayot
Butchvarov.

15. The Metaphysics of Possibilia: William Lycan.

16. The Actual and the Possible: Alexander Pruss.

Index.

"If you want to find out what's going on at the leading edge of
current metaphysics, there is no better place to look than this
volume of new essays by some of the most original and productive
minds now working in this field. The topics they discuss range far
and wide, encompassing many central issues of metaphysics such as
causation, time, the self, events, ontological categories, and the
relation between physics and metaphysics. This book is not only a
'guide' to metaphysics but also includes substantial new
contributions to the field." Jaegwon Kim, Brown University