Metaphysics: an introduction
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures and Tables
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xv
Visual Tour of Metaphysics: An Introduction
xvii
Preparatory Background: Logic for Metaphysics
1
Arguments
1
Validity
3
Soundness
7
Criticizing Arguments
9
The Principle of Charity and Enthymemes
11
Propositiona! Logic
13
First-Order Predicate Logic
18
Suggestions for Further Reading
28
Notes
28
Chapter
1
An Introduction to Ontology
30
Ontology: A Central Subfield of Metaphysics
30
The Puzzle of Nonexistent Objects
31
Finding One s Ontological Commitments: Quine s
Method
37
The Method of Paraphrase
42
Ockham s Razor
48
Where Should Metaphysical Inquiry Begin? Some
Starting Points
50
Fundamental Metaphysics and Ontological
Dependence
53
Suggestions for Further Reading
57
Notes
58
Chapter
2
Abstract Entities
60
More than a Material World?
60
The Abstract/Concrete Distinction
62
Universais
and the One Over Many Argument
64
Applying Quine s Method
71
VIII CONTENTS
Nominalism
and Other Options
Mathematical Objects
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Chapter
3
Material Objects
What is a Material Object?
The Paradoxes of Material Constitution
The Problem of the Many
The Special Composition Question
Moderate Answers to the Special Composition
Question
Mereological Nihilism
Mereological
Universalism
Vagueness
Back to the Paradoxes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Chapter
4
Critiques of Metaphysics
A Concern about Methodology
Carnap s Two Critiques of Metaphysics
Responses to Carnap s Arguments
Present Day Worries about Metaphysical Method
The Relationship between Metaphysics and Science:
A Proposal
Suggestions for Further Reading
Notes
Chapter
5
Tíme
77
81
86
87
89
89
91
100
103
105
110
112
114
1 15
1 17
1 17
119
1 19
120
127
132
134
136
137
138
138
Time s Passage
The Argument against the Ordinary View from Special
Relativity
140
Ontologies of Time
142
The
А
-theory and the B-theory
146
The Truthmaker Objection
152
Time Travel
162
Suggestions for Further Reading
167
Notes
168
Chapter
6
Persistence
The Puzzle of Change
Some Views about Persistence
A Solution to Some Paradoxes of Material
Constitution
The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics
170
170
173
175
178
Chapter
7
Chapter
8
CONTENTS IX
Exdurantism
183
Defending Three Dimensionalism
185
Suggestions for Further Reading
189
Notes
189
Modality
190
Possibility and Necessity: Modes of Truth
190
Species of Possibility and Necessity
191
The Possible Worlds Analysis of Modality
193
Ersatz Modal Realism
202
Rejecting the Possible Worlds Analysis
207
Essentialism and Anti-essentialism
211
Essentialism Today
213
The Relation between Essence and Necessity
215
Suggestions for Further Reading
215
Notes
216
Causation
217
Causation in the History of Philosophy
217
Hume s Empiricism
220
Three Reductive Theories of Causation
223
An Objection to Reductive Theories of Causation
231
Physical Theories of Causation
232
Two Projects in the Philosophy of Causation
235
Suggestions for Further Reading
236
Notes
237
Free Will
239
What is Free Will?
239
The Problem of Free Will and Determinism
241
Determinism
244
Compatibilism
246
Libertarian ¡sm
252
Skepticism about Free Will
256
Suggestions for Further Reading
257
Notes
258
Chapter
10
The Metaphysics of Race
259
(with Allan Hazlett)
Race: A Topic in Social Ontology
259
Natural and Social Kinds
260
Three Views about Races
264
The Argument from Genetics
267
The Argument from Relativity
269
The Argument from Anti-racism
273
A Causal Argument against Eliminativism
275
CONTENTS
Suggestions for Further Reading
278
Notes
278
Glossary
280
Bibliography
292
Index
300
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