The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics by Barnard, Robert W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Series Title Copyright Contents Contributors Introduction

Research Problems and Methods Modality Universals and Abstract Objects Naturalism and Physicalism Mind Material Constitution Endurantism and Perdurantism Personal Identity Free Will God New Directions in Metaphysics

1 Research Problems and Methods

Methodology in Metaphysics: A Very Brief History The New Metaphysics New Challenges for Serious Metaphysics Conclusion

2 Modality

The Problem of Modality Worlds as a Solution De Re Modality

3 Universals and Abstract Objects

What is a Universal? What is an Abstract Object? Some Clarifications Regarding Terminology Universals, Mathematical Objects, and Language Platonism vs Nominalism Connecting Platonisms: Logicism

4 Naturalism and Physicalism

Two Influential “Ism”s Interpreting “Naturalism” Formulating Physicalism Support for Naturalism and/or Physicalism

5 Mind

Preliminary Census The Live Options Score Keeping The State of Play

6 Material Constitution

The Orthodox View: Coincident Objects Dominant Kinds Nihilism Revising the Logic of Identity Future Research

7 Endurantism and Perdurantism

Introduction Populationism Dimensionalism Occupationalism Conclusion

8 Personal Identity

Neo-Lockean Theories Animalism Constitution Theories Persons as Spatial Parts of Animals Four-Dimensionalism Needed Research

9 Free Will

Do We Have Free Will? Preliminaries to Approaching the Question General Positions with Respect to the Nature of Free Will Positive Answers to the Existence Question Negative Answers to the Existence Question Conclusion

10 God

Conceptions of God Schema A (The Doxastic Possibility that God Exists) Schema B (Causal Order and the Cosmological Argument) Schema B (Fine-Tuning and the Argument for Design) Coda

11 New Directions in Metaphysics

Quine’s Method for Metaphysics Deflationary Metaphysics Experimental Metaphysics A Modest Proposal

Annotated Bibliography Research Guide A–Z Index of Key Terms and Concepts Index