v. 6- edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

volume 1. -- Tensed quantifiers / David Lewis -- Symposium : defining presentism -- On presentism and triviality / Thomas M. Crisp -- Presentism, triviality, and the varieties of tensism / Peter Ludlow -- Reply to Ludlow / Thomas M. Crisp -- A defense of presentism / Ned Markosian -- Presentism and truthmaking / Simon Keller -- A theory of properties / Peter van Inwagen -- How do particulars stand to universals? / D.M. Armstrong -- Non-symmetric relations / Cian Dorr -- The mental problems of the many / Peter Unger -- Properties and powers / John Heil -- The intrinsic character of causation / Ned Hall -- Recombination, causal constraints, and humean supervenience : an argument for temporal parts? / Ryan Wasserman, John Hawthorne, and Mark Scala

volume 2. -- Max Black's Objection to Mind-Body Identity / Ned Block -- Mary and Max and Jack and Ned / John Perry -- A Posterioiri Identities and the Requirements of Rationality / Stephen L. White -- Goodbye Growing Block / Trenton Merricks -- Rashi's View of the Open Future : Indeterminateness and Bivalience / Eli Hirsch -- General Facts, Physical Necessity, and the Metaphysics of Time / Peter Forrest -- Inexpressible Properties and Propositions / Thomas Hofweber -- Aristotle's Constituent Ontology / Michael J. Loux -- The Relation Between General and Particula r: Entailment vs. Supervenience / Phillip Bricker -- Epistemicism and Semantic Plasticity / John Hawthorne -- God and the Problem of Universals / Brian Leftow -- A Theistic Argument Against Platonism (and in Support of Truthmakers and Divine Simplicity) / Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower -- Beautiful Evils / Hud Hudson

volume 3. -- Human Beings, Human Animals, and Mentalistic Survival / Denis Robinson -- Human beings revisited : my body is not an animal / Mark Johnston -- Worlds, Pluriverses, and Minds / Mark Heller -- Analyzing Modality / Michael Jubien -- Four-Dimensionalism and the Puzzles of Coincidence / Matthew McGrath -- Time Travel, Coinciding Objects, and Persistence / Cody Gilmore -- Theories of Location / Josh Parsons -- Brutal Simples / Kris McDaniel -- Contact and Continuity / William Kilborn -- Metaphysical Compatibilism's Appropriation of Frankfurt / Ted A. Warfield

volume 4. -- Nominalism / Willard Van Orman Quine -- Quine and Tarski on Nominalism / Paolo Mancosu -- Cats, Dogs, and So On / John P. Burgess -- Quine's Lecture on Nominalism From the Perspective of a Nominalist / Charles Chihara -- A World of Concrete Particulars / Joseph Melia -- Quine's 1946 Lecture on Nominalism / Peter van Inwagen -- Ceteris Absentibus Physicalism / Stephan Leuenberger -- Truthmakers and Predication / Daniel Nolan -- On Locating Composite Objects / Jacek Brzozowski -- Gunk, Topology and Measure / Frank Arntzenius -- The Structure of Gunk : Adventures in the Ontology of Space / Jeffrey Sanford Russell -- Beware of the Blob : Cautions for Would-Be Metaphysicians / Mark Wilson

volume 5. -- Changing the Past / Peter van Inwagen -- Can a Soufflé Rise Twice? Van Inwagen's Irresponsible Time-Travellers / Peter Forrest -- Van Inwagen on Time-Travel and Changing the Past / Hud Hudson and Ryan Wasserman -- Location and Perdurance / Antony Eagle -- Coinciding Objects and Duration Properties : Reply to Eagle / Cody Gilmore -- Duration in Relativistic Spacetime / Antony Eagle -- Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness / Daniel Z. Korman -- Many as One / Thomas Sattig -- Extrinsic Temporal Metrics / Bradford Skow -- Parthood and Multi-Location / Maureen Donnelly -- Constructing a Theory of Sounds / Casey O'Callaghan -- Hearing Sounds / Roger Scruton -- What Sounds Are / Matthew Nudds -- Sounds and Temporality / Jonathan Cohen

volume 6. -- Ontological Nihilism / Jason Turner -- Truthmaking for Presentists / Ross P. Cameron -- A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy / Elizabeth Barnes and J. Robert G. Williams -- Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vague Existence / Richard Woodward -- Mereological Harmony / Gabriel Uzquiano -- Parthood and Location / Raul Saucedo -- Externalism and Brain Transplants / Rory Madden

volume 7. -- Possibility Relative to a Sortal / Delia Graff Fara -- Reflections on Counterpart Theory / Allen Hazen -- All Things Must Pass Away / Joshua Spencer -- Absolute Generality Reconsidered / Agustin Rayo -- Goodbye, Humean Supervenience / Troy Cross -- "There sweep great general principles which all the laws seem to follow" / Marc Lange -- Relativized Metaphysical Modality / Adam Murray and Jessica Wilson -- Coincidence Through Thick and Thin / Sydney Shoemaker -- The Real Truth about the Unreal Future / Rachael Briggs and Graeme A. Forbes -- Presentism and Distributional Properties / Jonathan Tallant and David Ingram

volume 8. -- Naturalness / Cian Dorr and John Hawthorne -- Fundamental Properties of Fundamental Properties / Maya Eddon -- Absolutism vs. Comparativism about Quantity / Shamik Dasgupta -- Modal Quantification without Worlds / Bill Dunaway -- Slots in Universals / Cody Gilmore -- Against Parthood / Theodore Sider -- Composition as General Identity / Aaron J. Cotnoir -- Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity / Katherine Hawley -- Living on the Brink, or Welcome Back, Growing Block! / Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz -- Fighting the Zombie of the Growing Salami / David Braddon-Mitchell -- Changing Truthmakers : Reply to Tallant and Ingram / Ross P. Cameron

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