Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 5

✍ Scribed by Dean Zimmerman (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it. 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 of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. This fifth volume is largely focused on the metaphysics of time, with sections on time travel; persistence through time; and time, space, and location. The final section of the volume is devoted to a neglected topic that is starting to attract philosophical attention: the metaphysics of sounds. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
The Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Younger Scholar Prize
TIME-TRAVEL, à la VAN INWAGEN
1 Changing the Past
2 Can a Soufflé Rise Twice? Van Inwagen’s Irresponsible Time-Travelers
3 Van Inwagen on Time-Travel and Changing the Past
PERSISTENCE THROUGH TIME
4 Location and Perdurance
5 Coinciding Objects and Duration Properties: Reply to Eagle
6 Duration in Relativistic Spacetime
7 Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness
8 Many as One
TIME, SPACE, AND LOCATION
9 Extrinsic Temporal Metrics
10 Parthood and Multi-Location
THE METAPHYSICS OF SOUNDS
11 Constructing a Theory of Sounds
12 Hearing Sounds
13 What Sounds Are
14 Sounds and Temporality
Index
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