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Being : developments in contemporary metaphysics

Title
  1. Being : developments in contemporary metaphysics / edited by Robin Le Poidevin.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional authors
  1. Le Poidevin, Robin, 1962-
Description
  1. viii, 212 pages; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 62
Uniform title
  1. Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 62.
Alternative title
  1. Developments in contemporary metaphysics
Subject
  1. Wetenschapsfilosofie
  2. Being
  3. Contemporary metaphysics
  4. Metaphysics
Contents
  1. 1. In defence of three-dimensionalism / Kit Fine -- 2. Modes of extension: comments on Kit Fine's 'In defence of three-dimensionalism' / Peter Simons -- 3. Two notions of being : entity and essence / E. J. Lowe -- 4. Essence and being / Scott A. Shalkowski -- 5. Micro-composition / D. H. Mellor -- 6. Working parts : reply to Mellor / J. Robert G. Williams -- 7. Truthmakers, realism and ontology / Ross P. Cameron -- 8. Monism and statespace structure / Theodore Sider -- 9. Coincidence and identity / Penelope Mackie -- 10. Nihilism without self-contradiction / David Liggins -- 11. Persistence and determination / Katherine Hawley.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.