Author: Tomberlin, James E.; editor:
Title: Philosophical Perspectives, 10: Metaphysics, 1996
Description: Cambridge / Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, (1996). orig.boards. 23x15cm, x,499 pp. Minor rubbing. Some page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 25 papers. Includes: G. Bealer "On the Possibility of Philosophical Knowledge"; J. Bigelow "Presentism & Propertiers"; G.W. Fitch "In Defense of Aristotelian Actualism"; G. Forbes "Logic, Logical Form & the Open Future"; B. Hale "Absolute Necessities"; M. Hinchliff "The Puzzle of Change"; H.M. Cartwright "Some of a Plurality"; M. Devitt "The Metaphysics of Nonfactualism"; M. Heller "Against Metaphysical Vagueness"; P. Horwich "Realism & Truth"; F. Jackson "The Primary Quality View of Color"; R. Stalnaker "Varieties of Supervenience"; C. Swoyer "Theories of Properties: From Plenitude to Paucity"; A. Brueckner "Modest Transcendental Arguments"; M. David "Analyticity, Carnap, Quine & Truth"; S. Haack "Reflections on Relativism: From Momentous Tautology to Seductive Contradiction"; P. Maddy "Ontological Commitment: Between Quine & Duhem"; M. Jubien "The Myth of Identity Conditions"; J. Rosenberg "On a Certain Antinomy: Properties, Concepts & Items in Space"; J. Dupré "The Solution to the Problem of Freedom of the Will"; C.A. Ginet "In Defense of the Principle of Alternative Possiblities: Why I Don't Find Frankfurt's Argument Convincing"; T. Kapitan "Modal Principles in the Metaphysics of Free Will"; R. Cartwright "Aquinas on What Could Have Been"; T.H. Irwin " Stoic Individuals"; R.C. Sleigh "Leibniz's First Theodicy".

Keywords: Metaphysics, Metaphysical, Philosophy, Modality, Time, Quine Quinean, Ontology, Identity, Free Will