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ALSO AVAILABLE FROM ROUTLEDGE CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF CONCEPTS INTRODUCTION

What is metaphysics? How to use this book?

METAPHYSICS

ABSTRACT VS CONCRETE AGENT CAUSATION

Criticisms of agent causation

ALEPH ANALYSIS ANALYTIC VS SYNTHETIC TRUTHS ANCESTRAL RELATION ANIMALISM ANTI-CRITERIALISM ANTI-REALISM

A POSTERIORI A PRIORI/A POSTERIORI

ARISTOTLE ARMSTRONG, DAVID A-THEORY AUSTERE NOMINALISM BACKWARDS CAUSATION BEING BERKELEY, GEORGE BILKING ARGUMENT BODILY CONTINUITY BRADLEY’S REGRESS BRAINS IN A VAT B-THEORY BUNDLE THEORY OF THE SELF OR PERSON BUNDLE THEORY VS SUBSTANCE-ATTRIBUTE THEORY CANBERRA PLAN CARVING NATURE AT ITS JOINTS CATEGORICAL AND DISPOSITIONAL PROPERTIES CAUSAL RELATA CAUSATION AND LAWS CAUSATION BY ABSENCE CHANCE CLASS

Nomenclature

CLASS NOMINALISM COMMON SENSE COMPATIBILISM

Frankfurt’s compatibilism Dennett’s compatibilism Fischer’s semicompatibilism

CONCEPT CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS

What is the point of conceptual analysis?

CONCEPTUAL SCHEME CONCEPTUAL VS LOGICAL TRUTHS CONCRETE CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT CONTINGENT TRUTHS COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONAL COUNTERFACTUAL THEORY OF CAUSATION CRITERION OF ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT DETERMINABLES AND DETERMINATES DETERMINISM DIACHRONIC IDENTITY DIRECTION OF TIME DISPOSITIONAL PROPERTIES DRETSKE-TOOLEY-ARMSTRONG VIEW OF LAWS

Some problems for DTA

EMPIRICISM ENDURANTISM ESSENCE ETERNALISM

Motivations Objections

EVENT

Reasons to believe in events Other metaphysical issues

EXEMPLIFICATION EXISTENCE EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY EXTRINSIC PROPERTIES FACTS FICTIONALISM

Varieties of fictionalism

FISSION FLOW OF TIME FORM AND MATTER FOUR-DIMENSIONALISM FRANKFURT’S NEFARIOUS NEUROSURGEON

An incompatibilist response

FRANKFURT-STYLE CASES FREE WILL FUSION, MEREOLOGICAL GEDANKENEXPERIMENT GENERAL CAUSAL SENTENCES GLOBAL REALISM GOD’S EYE VIEW GRANDFATHER PARADOX GROWING BLOCK THEORY

Motivations Objections

GUIDANCE CONTROL VS REGULATIVE CONTROL GUNK HAECCEITISM HARD DETERMINISM HOLES

Anti-realism about holes Realism about holes

HUME, DAVID HUMEANISM HUMEAN SUPERVENIENCE IDEALISM IDENTITY IDENTITY OF INDISCERNIBLES IDENTITY OVER TIME ILLUSION OF FREE WILL IMMANENT REALISM ABOUT UNIVERSALS IMPROPER PART INCOMPATIBILISM INDETERMINISM INDEXICAL INDISCERNIBILITY OF IDENTICALS INFINITY

Classical themes Cantor

INSTANTIATION INTRINSIC VS EXTRINSIC PROPERTIES INUS CONDITIONS KANT, IMMANUEL KRIPKE, SAUL LAW OF NATURE LEIBNIZ’S LAW LEWIS, DAVID LIBERTARIANISM

Is there any evidence for libertarianism?

LINGUISTIC FRAMEWORK LINGUISTIC TURN LOCKE, JOHN LOGICAL TRUTH MCTAGGART, J. M. E. MEINONGIANISM MEMORY THEORY MEREOLOGICAL FUSION MEREOLOGY

Classical mereology Nomenclature

METAMETAPHYSICS METAPHYSICAL REALISM MODALITY MODAL REALISM

Genuine modal realism (GMR) Ersatz modal realism

MOOREAN FACTS MORAL RESPONSIBILITY

One concept of moral responsibility or two? Moral responsibility and reactive attitudes

MOVING SPOTLIGHT THEORY OF TIME MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY THESIS NATURAL KINDS NATURAL LAW NATURAL NECESSITY NATURAL PHILOSOPHY NATURAL PROPERTY NECESSARY A POSTERIORI TRUTHS NECESSITY NECESSITY OF ORIGIN THESIS NEGATIVE FACTS NEURON DIAGRAM NEUROSCIENCE AND FREE WILL

Objections to Libet

NIHILISM NOMINALISM NON-EXISTENT OBJECTS NUMBERS OCKHAM’S RAZOR ONE-TO-ONE RELATION ONLY X AND Y PRINCIPLE ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT ONTOLOGY OSTRICH NOMINALISM OVERDETERMINATION OVERLAP PARAPHRASE PART PARTICIPATION PARTICULARS PARTICULARS AND UNIVERSALS PERDURANTISM

Motivations The argument from temporary intrinsics The argument from coincidence Objections

PERSISTENCE PERSONAL IDENTITY PHASE SORTAL PHENOMENALISM AND IDEALISM PLATONIC HEAVEN PLATONISM POINT PARTICLE POSSIBILIA POSSIBLE WORLDS

Different types of modality Some questions about possible worlds

POSSIBILITY POSTMODERNISM PRAGMATISM PRE-EMPTION PRESENTISM

Motivations Objections

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES PRIMITIVE PRINCIPLE OF ALTERNATE POSSIBILITIES (PAP)

Weakening PAP Compatibilism and PAP

PROBABILISTIC THEORIES OF CAUSATION PROBABILISTIC THEORIES OF CAUSATION (TYPE-LEVEL) PROBABILITY

Metaphysical issues Nomenclature

PROBLEM OF LUCK

A solution to the problem of luck?

PROCESS THEORIES OF CAUSATION PROPERTIES PROPER CLASS PROPER PART PROPOSITION PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY PSYCHOLOGISM QUASI-MEMORY/QUASI-STATES QUIDDITISM QUINE, W. V. RAMSEY–LEWIS VIEW OF LAWS

What is the best theory? Problems for the Ramsey–Lewis view

RATIONALISM REACTIVE ATTITUDES REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM

Some arguments for anti-realism Some arguments for realism

REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM (GLOBAL) REDUCTIONISM REDUNDANT CAUSATION REGULARITY THEORY OF CAUSATION REGULARITY THEORY OF LAWS OF NATURE REGULATIVE CONTROL RELATA

propositions:

RELATIVISM

Varieties of relativism Relativism, truth and meaning Arguments for relativism

RELATIVITY RESEMBLANCE NOMINALISM RESPONSE-DEPENDENCE SCEPTICISM SET SHIP OF THESEUS SIMPLE SIMPLE VIEW OF PERSONAL IDENTITY SINGLETON SINGULAR CAUSAL SENTENCES SINGULARISM SOFT DETERMINISM SORTALS SOURCE INCOMPATIBILISM SPARSE PROPERTY SPECIAL COMPOSITION QUESTION SPLIT BRAIN CASE STATES OF AFFAIRS SUBSISTENCE SUBSTANCE SUBSTANCE-ATTRIBUTE THEORY SUBSTRATUM SUM SUPERTASK SUPERVENIENCE SURVIVAL SYNCHRONIC IDENTITY SYNTHETIC TRUTHS TEMPORAL PARTS TEMPORARY INTRINSICS TENSED AND TENSELESS THEORIES OF TIME THEORETICAL VIRTUES THOUGHT EXPERIMENT TIME TIME TRAVEL TOKEN TOKEN-LEVEL CAUSATION TRANSITIVE CLOSURE TRANSITIVE RELATION TROPE THEORY TRUMPING TRUTH

Deflationary views Truth as a substantive property Truth, realism and anti-realism

TRUTHBEARERS TRUTH CONDITIONS TRUTHMAKERS TYPE-LEVEL CAUSATION TYPE AND TOKENS UNIVERSALISM UNIVERSALS

Facts about resemblance Sentences with terms that seem to refer to general properties

UNREALITY OF TIME UNRESTRICTED MEREOLOGICAL COMPOSITION ZENO

BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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