Real Metaphysics (Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Hallvard Lillehammer, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy
Edition: 1st
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This text brings together a collection of new essays by a number of philosophers to honor Hugh Mellor's contribution to philosophy. The collection stands as an original exploration of some of the most central issues in philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Truthmakers for modal truths......Page 21
Things qua truthmakers......Page 34
Postscript to 'Things qua truthmakers': negative existentials......Page 48
Deflationism: the facts......Page 52
Truth and the theory of communication......Page 63
Subjective facts......Page 77
From H2O to water: the relevance to a priori passage......Page 93
Epiphenomenalism and causal asymmetry......Page 107
Is causation a genuine relation?......Page 129
Dispositions and conditionals......Page 146
Structural properties......Page 163
Laws, explanations and the reduction of possibilities......Page 178
What is wrong with the relational theory of change?......Page 193
Presentism: a critique......Page 205
Real Metaphysics: replies......Page 221
D. H. Mellor: a bibliography......Page 248
Index......Page 255

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