Overview

Does time flow? Do the past and future exist? What are facts? What is causation? Do truths have truthmakers? If so, what are they? The papers in this collection offer new answers to these fundamental - and controversial - questions, which have preoccupied Hugh Mellor, one of the outstanding metaphysicians of our time and author of titles including The Matters of Chance (1971),Matters of Metaphysics (1991) and The Facts of Causation (Routledge 1995). Real Metaphysics brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics. Real Metaphysics stands as a highly original exploration and assessment of some of the most central issues in metaphysics and will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in contemporary philosophy. David Armstrong, Chris Daly, Frank Jackson, Arnold Koslow, Robin LePoidevin, Isaac Levi, Hallvard Lillehammer, David Lewis, Hugh Mellor, Peter Menzies, Paul Noordhof, John Perry, Gonzalo Rodruigez-Per

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Author:   Hallvard Lillehammer (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780415249812

ISBN 10:   0415249813
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   19 December 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction, Hallvard Lillehammers and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra II. Truthmakers for Modal Truths, David Armstrong III. Things qua Truthmakers, David Lewis (with Gideon Rosen) IV. Minimalism: the Facts, Peter Smith V. Truth and the Theory of Communication, Chris Daly VI. Subjective Facts, Tim Crane VII From H20 to Water: the Relevance to A Priori Passage, Frank Jackson VII. Epiphenomenalism and Causal Asymmetry, Paul Noordhof IX. Is Causation a Genuine Relation, Peter Menzies X. Dispositions and Conditionals, Isaac Levi XI. Structural Properties, Alexander Bird XII Laws , Explanations and the Reduction of Possiblities, Arnold Koslow XIII. What is Wrong with the Relational Theory of Change? XIV. Presentism: a Critique, L Nathan Oaklander XV. Real Metaphysics: Replies, D H Mellor. Index.

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