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2Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Vol. 14 (edited book)Oxford University Press. forthcoming.Volume 14 of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Series
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5Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 10 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2017.Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philsophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will oft…Read more
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6Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 9 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2015.Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will of…Read more
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29Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 8 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is dedicated to the timely publication of new work in metaphysics, broadly construed. These volumes provide a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. They offer a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. This book is the eight…Read more
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14Oxford Studies in Metaphysics volume 7 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.
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8Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 6 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.
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10Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Vol. 13 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philsophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will oft…Read more
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39Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 13 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is dedicated to the timely publication of new work in metaphysics, broadly construed. These volumes provide a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. They offer a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighboring fields, such as philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. This book is the 13th v…Read more
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17Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 12 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2020.Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.
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11Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 11 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character: this series is a much-needed focus for it.
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Material peopleIn Michael J. Loux & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), The Oxford handbook of metaphysics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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159Persons: Human and Divine (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2007.The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy, currently enjoying something of a revival. In this volume for the first time metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons are brought together with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. Fifteen specially written essays explore idealist, dualist, and materialist views of persons, discuss specifically Christian conceptions of the value of embodiment, and address four central topics in philosophical theo…Read more
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523Contemporary debates in metaphysics (edited book)Blackwell. 2008.This anthology introduces advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students to today's debates in metaphysics. The book consists of essays by contemporary metaphysicians, and all but one appear here for the first time. For each of nine topics, there are two essays, one "pro-" and one "con-".
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4Roderick Chisholm (1916–1999)In A. P. Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.This chapter contains sections titled: Part I: Epistemology Part II: Metaphysics.
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78The Ontology of Physical Objects (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1): 220-224. 1993.
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32Ever Better Situations and the Failure of Expression PrinciplesFaith and Philosophy 35 (4): 408-416. 2018.William Rowe argues that if an omnipotent, omniscient being were faced with an infinite hierarchy of better and better worlds to create, that being could not also be unsurpassably morally excellent. His argument assumes that, at least in ideal circumstances, degree of moral goodness must be perfectly expressed in the degree of goodness of the outcomes chosen. Reflection upon the application of analogous expression principles for certainty and desire shows that such principles can be expected to …Read more
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238The Compatibility of Materialism and SurvivalFaith and Philosophy 16 (2): 194-212. 1999.It is not easy to be a materialist and yet believe that there is a way for human beings to survive death. Peter van Inwagen identifies the central obstacle the materialist faces: Namely, the need to posit appropriate “immanent-causal” connections between my body as it is at death and some living body elsewhere or elsewhen. I offer a proposal, consistent with van Inwagen’s own materialist metaphysics, for making materialism compatible with the possibility of survival.
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26Robinson's Regress Argument from Vagueness to DualismDialectica 999 (1). 2022.Howard Robinson's *From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance* contains two quite different arguments from the vagueness of composite objects to the conclusion that I am not a physical object at all. One of them, developed over the course of several chapters, takes the following form: All composite physical objects (and only composite physical objects are candidates to be a human being) are non-fundamental; non-fundamental things are inevitably vague in various ways; this vagueness shows th…Read more
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43Persons and Bodies: Constitution Without Mereology?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (3): 599-606. 2002.
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81Resisting Rowe's No-Best-World Argument for AtheismIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), Quo Vadis, Metaphysics?: Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen, De Gruyter. pp. 443-468. 2019.
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67On Perceiving God: Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religious ExperienceIn Alvin Goldman & Brian P. McLaughlin (eds.), Metaphysics and Cognitive Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 125-154. 2019.
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Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 9 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century.
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3Philosophical Perspectives, Language and Philosophical Linguistics (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.Philosophical Perspectives Volume 17, Language and Philosophical Linguistics, contains over 20 articles from leading philosophers of language and linguists
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36Ever Better Situations and the Failure of Expression PrinciplesFaith and Philosophy 35 (4): 408-416. 2018.William Rowe argues that if an omnipotent, omniscient being were faced with an infinite hierarchy of better and better worlds to create, that being could not also be unsurpassably morally excellent. His argument assumes that, at least in ideal circumstances, degree of moral goodness must be perfectly expressed in the degree of goodness of the outcomes chosen. Reflection upon the application of analogous expression principles for certainty and desire shows that such principles can be expected to …Read more
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817The A-Theory of Time, The B-Theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’Dialectica 59 (4): 401-457. 2005.The paper has two parts: First, I describe a relatively popular thesis in the philosophy of propositional attitudes, worthy of the name ‘taking tense seriously’; and I distinguish it from a family of views in the metaphysics of time, namely, the A-theories (or what are sometimes called ‘tensed theories of time’). Once the distinction is in focus, a skeptical worry arises. Some A-theorists maintain that the difference between past, present, and future, is to be drawn in terms of what exists: grow…Read more
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1An Argument for Mereological EssentialismDissertation, Brown University. 1992.If extended objects were just sums of unextended parts, no satisfactory theory of contact would be possible. So extended objects are not decomposable into sets of simples. The fact that extended things do not possess a single decomposition into a set of smallest, indivisible parts places important constraints upon the analysis of propositions involving mass terms. In particular, it rules out those which construe masses of matter as set-theoretical constructions out of the parts of things. Conseq…Read more