Metaphysical Essays [Paperback]

John Hawthorne is widely regarded as one of the finest philosophers working today. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to metaphysics, and this volume collects his most notable papers in this field. Hawthorne offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation. Six of the essays appear here for the first time, and there is a valuable introduction to guide the reader through the selection.

Introduction
1. Identity
2. Locations,John Hawthorne & Theodore Sider
3. Plenitude, convention, and ontology
4. Recombination, causal constraints, and Humean supervenience: an argument for temporal parts?,John Hawthorne, Ryan Wasserman, and Mark Scala
5. Three dimensionalism
6. Motion and plenitude
7. Gunk and continuous variation,John Hawthorne and Frank Arntzenius
8. Vagueness and the mind of God
9. Epistemicism and semantic plasticity
10. Causal structuralism
11. Quantity in Lewisian metaphysics
12. Determinismde re
13. Why Humeans are out of their minds
14. Chance and counterfactuals
15. Which would teleological causation be?,John Hawthorne and Daniel Nolan
16. Before-effect and Zeno causality