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The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
| ISBN | 0847683842 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | ISBN13 | 9780847683840
(What's this?) | | Pages | 200 | | Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield | | Weight (grammes) | 617 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | Lanham, MD | | Publication date | 28 Dec 1996 | | Height (mm) | 230 | | Writer of foreword | Peter van Inwagen | | Width (mm) | 154 | | Library of Congress | BD646.M27 | | Spine width (mm) | 29 | | DEWEY | 110 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Foreword by Peter van Inwagen | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction by Michael C. Rea | | | | 1 | | On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time by David Wiggins | | 3 | | 2 | | Spatially Coinciding Objects by Frederick C. Doepke | | 10 | | 3 | | Parthood and Identity Across Time by Judith Jarvis Thomson | | 25 | | 4 | | Constitution Is Not Identity by Mark Johnston | | 44 | | 5 | | Subjects Among Other Things by Ernest Sosa | | 63 | | 6 | | Contingent Identity by Allan Gibbard | | 93 | | 7 | | Counterparts or Double Lives? (Selections) by David Lewis | | 126 | | 8 | | Identity and Time by George Myro | | 148 | | 9 | | I Do Not Exist by Peter Unger | | 175 | | 10 | | The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts by Peter van Inwagen | | 191 | | 11 | | Identity through Time by Roderick M. Chisholm | | 209 | | 12 | | Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place: A Novel Account of the Relations Among Objects, Sorts, Sortals, and Persistence Conditions by Michael B. Burke | | 236 | | 13 | | Entities Without Identity by Terence Parsons | | 273 | | 14 | | De Re Modality Entails De Re Vagueness by Frances Howard-Snyder | | 290 | | 15 | | Reference and Generality (Selections) by Peter T. Geach | | 305 | | 16 | | Constitutivity and Identity by Hugh S. Chandler | | 313 | | 17 | | Temporal Parts of Four Dimensional Objects by Mark Heller | | 320 | | Appendix | | A Formal Statement of the Problem | | 331 | | | | Select Bibliography | | 333 | | | | Index | | 343 | | | More... | | |
Material Constitution has collected together many of the best and most important papers on the topic. This volume should find its way to the bookshelf of anyone working on the ontology of material objects. -- Mark Heller, Southern Methodist University A fine collection ... Rea's introductory essay is absolutely top-notch. -- Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame It [will] be a well- and often-used collection for a long time to come. -- Ernest Sosa, Brown University  Be the first to write a customer review
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