Current Controversies in Metaphysics

Barnes, Elizabeth (EDT)

Routledge（2019/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 166 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367868093
• DDC分類 110

Full Description

This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such key issues as: modality, fundamentality, composition, the object/property distinction, and indeterminacy. The contributors include some of the most important philosophers currently writing on these issues. The questions and philosophers are:


Are there any individuals at the fundamental level? / (1) Shamik Dasgupta (2) Jason Turner




Is there an objective difference between essential and accidental properties? / (1) Meghan Sullivan (2) Kris McDaniel and Steve Steward




Are there any worldly states of affairs? / (1) Daniel Nolan (2) Joseph Melia




Are there any intermediate states of affairs? / (1) Jessica Wilson (2) Elizabeth Barnes and Ross Cameron




Do ordinary objects exist? / (1) Trenton Merricks (2) Helen Beebee

Editor Elizabeth Barnes guides readers through these controversies (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction and succinct abstracts of each debate.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Elizabeth Barnes, University of Leeds

PART 1: Are there any individuals at the fundamental level?

1. Shamik Dasgupta, Princeton University

2. Jason Turner, University of Leeds

PART 2: Is there an objective difference between essential and accidental properties?

1. Meghan Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

2. Kris McDaniel, Syracuse University

PART 3: Are there any worldly states of affairs?

1. Daniel Nolan, Australia National University

2. Joseph Melia, Oxford University

PART 4: Are there any indeterminate states of affairs?


Jessica Wilson, University of Toronto




Elizabeth Barnes, University of Leeds