Metaphysics An Anthology [Hardcover]

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.

• One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available – now updated and expanded
• Offers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysics
• Includes new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects, as well as readings on the topics of fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity, temporary intrinsics, stage theory, and composition
• Surpasses other anthologies in its combination of contributions from leading metaphysicians and a younger generation of rising-stars

Preface (Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, Daniel Z. Korman).

Part I: Ontology.

1. On What There Is (W. V. Quine).

2. Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (Rudolf Carnap).

3. Holes (David and Stephanie Lewis).

4. Beyond Being and Nonbeing (Roderick M. Chisholm).

5. Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake? (Stephen Yablo).

6. Fictional Objects (Amie L. Thomasson).

7. On What Grounds What (Jonathan Schaffer).

Part II: Identity.

8. The Identity of Indiscernibles (Max Black).

9. Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity (Robert M. Adams).

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