Existence: Essays in Ontology

Peter van Inwagen

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Preface Introduction: inside and outside the ontology room 1. Five questions 2. The new antimetaphysicians 3. Being, existence, and ontological commitment 4. Existence, ontological commitment, and fictional entities 5. Can variables be explained away? 6. Quine's 1946 lecture on nominalism 7. Alston on ontological commitment 8. A theory of properties 9. What is an ontological category? 10. Relational vs. constituent ontologies 11. Can mereological sums change their parts? 12. Causation and the mental.

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