Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Volume 11

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Volume 11 / edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman.

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.

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Other Authors: Bennett, Karen, 1971- (Editor), Zimmerman, Dean W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Metaphysics.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; OXFORD STUDIES IN METAPHYSICS: Volume 11; Copyright; PREFACE; CONTENTS; THE SANDERS PRIZE IN METAPHYSICS; PART I: RELATIONALISM AND SUBSTANTIVALISM; 1: A New Approach to the Relational-Substantival Debate; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SPATIOTEMPORAL STRUCTURE AND THE MATCHING PRINCIPLE; 3. A DISAGREEMENT ABOUT GROUND; 3.1. Relationalism in terms of ground; 3.2. Substantivalism in terms of ground; 3.3. Further clarifications; 3.4. Something old, something new; 4. AN ARGUMENT FOR SUBSTANTIVALISM; 5. A CHALLENGE FOR RELATIONALISM; 6. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 2: Relative Locations
  • 1. LEIBNIZ'S SHIFT ARGUMENT2. RELATIONISM; 2.1. Mathematical relationism; 2.2. The prospects for alternative versions of relationism; 3. MULTIPLE LOCATION; 3.1. Locations in ordinary language; 3.2. The combined theory of part and location; 3.3. The theory of part and location; 3.4. Combining the theory with shift invariance; 4. CONCLUSION; 5. APPENDIX A: FIELDS; 5.1. Demathematizing fields in orthodox Newtonian physics; 5.2. Fields and the theory of multiple location; 6. APPENDIX B: THE FIRST-ORDER THEORY OF PART AND LOCATION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; PART II: TIME AND CHANGE
  • 3: A Passage Theory of Time1. A SEARCH FOR PASSAGE; 2. FRAGMENTATION ACROSS TIME; 3. REGIMENTING PASSAGE; 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; 4: Fragmenting the Wave Function; 1. STRATEGIES FOR B-THEORETIC ENDURANTISTS: RELATIVIZING, OUTSOURCING, AND DEFUSING; 1.1. Relativizing accounts; 1.2. Outsourcing accounts; 1.3. Defusing accounts; 1.4. Fragmentalism; 2. SPOOKY ISOLATION AND SPOOKY COINCIDENCE; 2.1. Spooky isolation; 2.2. Spooky coincidence; 3. SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE; 4. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; PART III: RECOMBINATION, RELATIONS, AND SUPERVENIENCE; 5: Possible Patterns
  • 1. TWO COMBINATORIAL IDEAS2. PATTERNS OF PROPERTIES; 3. PATTERNS OF RELATIONS; 4. PLURALITIES OF WORLDS; 5. UNRESTRICTED PATTERNS; APPENDIX A: SET STRUCTURES; APPENDIX B: PLURAL STRUCTURES; REFERENCES; 6: Plural Slot Theory; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SLOT THEORY AND ITS PROBLEMS; 3. STATING SLOT THEORY MORE PRECISELY; 4. AN INITIAL FORMULATION OF POCKET THEORY; 5. A PROBLEM AND A REVISED FORMULATION; 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; 7: Local Qualities; 1. HUMEAN SUPERVENIENCE; 2. ANTI-HUMEAN INSPIRATION: LOCALITY WITHOUT INSULATION; 3. NON-PIECEMEAL HUMEANISM
  • 4. CONSEQUENCES: NON-LOCAL BASINGACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; PART IV: VAGUENESS; 8: Vague Naturalness as Ersatz Metaphysical Vagueness; 1. THE PLAUSIBILITY OF (V1)-(V3); 1.1. (V1); 1.2. (V2); 1.3. (V3); 2. THE TENSION BETWEEN (V1)-(V3); 2.1. Preliminaries; 2.2. The precise naturalness strategy; 2.3. The reference magnetic strategy; 3. VAGUE NATURALNESS AS ERSATZ METAPHYSICAL VAGUENESS; 4. FUNDAMENTAL INDETERMINACY; 5. THE REFERENCE MAGNETIC STRATEGY, REDUX; 6. NO RADICAL INDETERMINACY; 7. NATURALNESS IS NATURAL; 8. CONCLUSION; 9. APPENDIX: SOPHISTICATED REFERENCE MAGNETISM; REFERENCES

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