Ｊ．ホーソーン形而上学論文集 Metaphysical Essays

Hawthorne, John

Oxford University Press（2006/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 310 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199291243
• DDC分類 110

基本説明

Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Full Description

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Contents

Introduction ; 1. Identity ; 2. Locations ; 3. Plenitude, convention, and ontology ; 4. Recombination, causal constraints, and Humean supervenience: an argument for temporal parts? ; 5. Three dimensionalism ; 6. Motion and plenitude ; 7. Gunk and continuous variation ; 8. Vagueness and the mind of God ; 9. Epistemicism and semantic plasticity ; 10. Causal structuralism ; 11. Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics ; 12. Determinism de re ; 13. Why Humeans are out of their minds ; 14. Chance and counterfactuals ; 15. Which would teleological causation be? ; 16. Before-effect and Zeno causality