Ontology, identity, and modality : essays in metaphysics

Peter van Inwagen

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Introduction Part I. Ontology: 1. Meta-ontology 2. Why I don't understand substitutional quantification 3. Creatures of fiction 4. Why is there anything at all? Part II. Identity: 5. The doctrine of arbitrary undetached parts 6. Composition as identity 7. Four-dimensional objects 8. Temporal parts and identity across time 9. Materialism and the psychological-continuity account of personal identity Part III. Modality: 10. Indexicality and actuality 11. Plantinga on trans-world identity 12. Two concepts of possible worlds 13. Modal epistemology Index.

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