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Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity. It confronts important issues left open in that work -- among them, the semantics of proper names and natural kind terms as they occur in...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-04-03
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Abstract objects have been a central topic in philosophy since antiquity. Philosophers have defended various views about abstract objects by appealing to metaphysical considerations, considerations regarding mathematics or science, and, not infrequently, intuitions...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-28
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Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-28
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Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical relations with...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-28
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An international team of contributors presents new work on the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation has been a hotly disputed topic in recent years, with reductive and non-reductive physicalists vying with each other and...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-21
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Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth. At no period in the history of philosophy, other than perhaps our...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-02-07
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-22
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Scientific Metaphysics collects original essays by some of the world's leading philosophers of science on the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalized--that is, conducted as a part of natural science. Some people will think that the idea of...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-17
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A Companion to the Philosophy of Time presents the broadest treatment of this subject yet; 32 specially commissioned articles - written by an international line-up of experts – provide an unparalleled reference work for students and specialists alike in this exciting...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-14
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Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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Joseph LaPorte offers a new account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. Some terms for concrete objects, such as 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus', are rigid, and the rigidity of these terms is...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-06
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Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-25
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This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “Existence is...
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Springer
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2012-10-17
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Synthese Library
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David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths. The picture is inspired by Rudolf Carnap's construction of the world in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt. Carnap's Aufbau is often seen as a noble failure,...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-10-04
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This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers. These newly commissioned papers are divided into four sections, preceded by a substantial Introduction, which places them in the context of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-27
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Brian Leftow offers a theory of the possible and the necessary in which God plays the chief role, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. It has become usual to say that a proposition is possible just in case it is true in some 'possible world' (roughly, some...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-09-06
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Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D. H. Mellor, including a new defence of 'success semantics', and an introduction arguing that metaphysics can and need only be justified by doing it and not by a 'meta-metaphysics', which it needs no...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-30
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Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-08-30
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What does reality encompass? Is reality exclusively physical? Or does reality include nonphysical -mental, and perhaps 'abstract' -aspects?What is it to be physical or mental, or to be an abstract entity?What are the elements of being, reality's raw materials? How is...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-19
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The Emergent Multiverse presents a striking new account of the 'many worlds' approach to quantum theory.The point of science, it is generally accepted, is to tell us how the world works and what it is like. But quantum theory seems to fail to do this: taken literally as...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-05-24
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In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P. F. Strawson. As McKenna demonstrates, moral responsibility can be explained on analogy with a conversation. The relation between a morally responsible agent...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-28
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