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What and why is a metaphysician? |
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Things and Properties |
Kim, Jaegwon, and Ernest Sosa, eds. "Intro to 'Universals, properties, kinds.'" In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, p. 197. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Properties = Universals |
Armstrong. "Universals as attributes." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 198-208. ISBN: 063120279X.
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Properties = (Special) Particulars |
Lewis. "New work for a theory of universals." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 209-215. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Properties at Work |
Lewis. "New work." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 215-223. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Non-existence |
Russell. "Existence and description." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 23-35. ISBN: 063120279X.
Parsons. "Referring to non-existent objects." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 36-44. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Existence |
Quine. "On what there is." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 4-12. ISBN: 063120279X.
Carnap. "Empiricism, semantics, and ontology." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 13-22. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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As-if Existence |
Walton, Kendall. "Existence as metaphor." In Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2000, pp. 69-94. ISBN: 1575862549.
Yablo, Stephen. "Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?" Supplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 72, no. 1 (June 1998): 229-262. |
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Identity of Indiscernibles |
Black. "The identity of indiscernibles." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 66-71. ISBN: 063120279X.
Adams. "Primitive thisness and primitive identity." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 172-183. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Contingent Identity |
Kripke. "Identity and necessity." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 72-84. ISBN: 063120279X.
Yablo. "Identity, essence, and indiscernibility." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 116-129. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Transworld Identity |
Kripke. "Identity and necessity." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 77-80. ISBN: 063120279X.
Lewis. "Counterparts or double lives?" In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 154-71. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Necessary and Contingent |
Kim, Jaegwon, and Ernest Sosa, eds. "Intro to 'Modalities and possible worlds.'" In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 133-34. ISBN: 063120279X.
Plantinga. "Modalities." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 136-48. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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De Re Modality |
Kripke. "Identity and necessity." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 80-83. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Essence and Accident |
Fine, Kit. "Essence and Modality: The Second Philosophical Perspectives Lecture." Philosophical Perspectives 8, Logic and Language (1994): 1-16.
Fine, Kit. "Senses of Essence." In Modality, morality and belief. Essays in honor of Ruth Barcan Marcus. Edited by Sinnott- Armstrong Walter. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 53-73. ISBN: 0521440823. |
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Possible Worlds |
Rosen, Gideon. "Modal Ficitionalism." Mind 99, no. 395 (July 1990): 327-354.
Fine, Kit. "The Problem of Possibilia." (PDF) |
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Causation as Regularity |
Mackie. "Causes and conditions." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 413-27. ISBN: 063120279X.
Davidson. "Causal relations." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 428-35. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Causation as Dependence |
Lewis. "Causation." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 436-43. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Causal Networks |
Hitchcock, Christopher. "The Intransitivity of Causation Revealed in Equations and Graphs." Journal of Philosophy 98 (2001): 273-299. |
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Holding Fixed |
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Sufficient Reason |
Hitchcock, Christopher. "Prevention, Preemption, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason." Faculty Working Paper, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology. |
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De Facto Dependence |
Yablo, Stephen. "Advertisement for a Sketch of an Outline of a Proto-Theory of Causation." In Causation and Counterfactuals. Edited by John Collins, Ned Hall, and L. A. Paul. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004, pp. 119-138. ISBN: 0262532565. |
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Pains and Brains |
Kripke. "Identity and necessity." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 83-86. ISBN: 063120279X.
Yablo, Stephen. "Textbook Kripkeanism & the Open Texture of Concepts." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 81 (2000): 98-122. |
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Multiple Realization |
Fodor. "Special sciences." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 504-14. ISBN: 063120279X.
Kim. "Multiple realization & metaphysics of reduction." In Metaphysics: An Anthology. Edited by Jaegwon Kim, and Ernest Sosa. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, pp. 515-30. ISBN: 063120279X. |
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Special Sciences |
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Last Class and Course Summary |
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