01023nam a2200157Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002200077100002400099245003800123260004900161300002900210490003600239505057300275650001700848230822s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97890040951069004095101  aeng  aBD111 b.V38 1993  aInwagen, Peter van  0aMetaphysicsb/cPeter van Inwagen  aBoulder, Colo. ; Oxford : bWestview, c1993  axiii, 222 p.b; c23 cm.  aDimensions of philosophy series  aIntroduction; 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.  aMetaphysics.