Inwagen, Peter van

Metaphysics / Peter van Inwagen - Boulder, Colo. ; Oxford : Westview, 1993 - xiii, 222 p. ; 23 cm. - Dimensions of philosophy series .

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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Metaphysics.

BD111 / .V38 1993