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The Blackwell Guide to
Metaphysics
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Contents
List of Contributors
vii
Preface
viii
1 Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton’s Dynamics
1
Lawrence Sklar
2 Causation
19
Wesley C. Salmon
3 What Events Are
43
Jonathan Bennett
4 Time, Temporality, and Paradox
66
Richard M. Gale
5 A Thomist Metaphysics
87
John J. Haldane
6 The Concept of Ontological Category: A New Approach
110
Lorenz B. Puntel
7 Universals and Predication
131
Bruce Aune
8 Composition as a Fiction
151
Gideon Rosen and Cian Dorr
9 What Do We Refer to When We Say “I”?
175
Peter van Inwagen
10 Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of “What Matters”
190
Jennifer E. Whiting
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