Contemporary debates in metaphysics

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Abstract entities -- Abstract entities / Chris Swoyer -- There are no abstract objects / Cian Dorr -- Causation and laws of nature -- Nailed to Hume's cross? / John W. Carroll -- Causation and laws of nature : reductionism / Jonathan Schaffer -- Modality and possible worlds -- Concrete possible worlds / Phillip Bricker -- Ersatz possible worlds / Joseph Melia -- Personal identity -- People and their bodies / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Persons, bodies, and human beings / Derek Parfit -- Time -- The privileged present : defending an a-theory of time / Dean Zimmerman -- The tenseless theory of time / J.J.C. Smart -- Persistence -- Temporal parts / Theodore Sider -- Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism / John Hawthorne -- Free will -- Incompatibilism / Robert Kane -- Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism / Kadri Vihvelin -- Mereology -- The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism / James van Cleve -- Restricted composition / Ned Markosian -- Meteontology -- Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance / Eli Hirsch -- The picture of reality as an amorphous lump / Matti Eklund.

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