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Contemporary debates in metaphysics

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Abstract entities
Abstract entities / Chris Swoyer
There are no abstract objects / Cian Dorr
Causation and laws of nature
Nailed to Hume's cross? / John W. Carroll
Causation and laws of nature : reductionism / Jonathan Schaffer
Modality and possible worlds
Concrete possible worlds / Phillip Bricker
Ersatz possible worlds / Joseph Melia
Personal identity
People and their bodies / Judith Jarvis Thomson
Persons, bodies, and human beings / Derek Parfit
Time
The privileged present : defending an "a-theory" of time / Dean Zimmerman
The tenseless theory of time / J.J.C. Smart
Persistence
Temporal parts / Theodore Sider
Three-dimensionalism vs. four-dimensionalism / John Hawthorne
Free will
Incompatibilism / Robert Kane
Compatibilism, incompatibilism, and impossibilism / Kadri Vihvelin
Mereology
The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism / James van Cleve
Restricted composition / Ned Markosian
Meteontology
Ontological arguments : interpretive charity and quantifier variance / Eli Hirsch
The picture of reality as an amorphous lump / Matti Eklund.

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