This book defends modal realism: the thesis that the world we are part of is but one of a plurality of worlds, And that we who inhabit this world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. First I review the ways in which…
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This article discusses recent work in metaphysics on temporal parts. After a short introduction introducing the notion of a temporal part, we examine several well- known arguments for the view that ordinary material objects such as tables, trees,…
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Ontological dependence is a term of philosophical jargon which stands for a rich family of properties and relations, often taken to be among the most fundamental ontological properties and relations. Notions of ontological dependence are usually…
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Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Metaphysics 2nd Edition includes a section of detailed review essays from renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300.…
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Formulates a definition of materialism: among worlds where no natural properties alien to our worlds are instantiated, no two differ without differing physically. With a lot of other material on universals.
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This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus, and others are contributing, is an exploration and defense of the notion of modality de re, the idea that…
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Now in a new edition, this volume updates Davidson's exceptional Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (1984), which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. The original volume remains a central point of reference, and a focus…
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Are the sparse properties drawn from all the levels of nature, or only the fundamental level? I discuss the notion of sparse property found in Armstrong and Lewis, show that there are tensions in the roles they have assigned the sparse properties,…
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Sider escreveu este livro para estudantes de filosofia que se intimidam frente à frente usual da área. Ele apresenta a lógica de 1ª ordem por meio do método axiomático, mas também de dedução natural e de sequentes. O livro inclui ainda as provas…
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Putnam's "model-Theoretic argument against metaphysical realism" is a correct refutation of a global description theory of reference. It demonstrates that if, As we usually suppose, We achieve more-Or-Less determinate reference, That must be so in…
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A truthmaker for a proposition p is an object o such that necessarily, if o exists, then p is true. In this paper, I show that the truthmaker thesis (that every truth has a truthmaker) and the disjunction thesis (that a truthmaker for a disjunction…
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The purpose of the article is to defend the view that materially identical objects are identical simpliciter. An argument to the contrary by Mark Johnston is criticized. In the course of the article a Lewisian four dimensional ontology and a…
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