This Is Metaphysics. Kris McDaniel

      

      Table of Contents

      1  Cover

      2  AN INTRODUCTION TO THIS IS METAPHYSICS 0.1 Who is This Book for? 0.2 Philosophy, Including Metaphysics, is for Everyone 0.3 An Overview of Metaphysics and Other Areas of Philosophy 0.4 Remarks for Instructors 0.5 Acknowledgments

      3  1 CLASSIFICATION 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Two Kinds of Classification 1.3 Classification Confusions 1.4 Do Things Objectively Belong Together? 1.5 Two Questions about Classification 1.6 Classification and Properties 1.7 Doing Metaphysics Further Reading

      4  2 PROPERTIES 2.1 Introduction to the Metaphysics of Properties 2.2 Are Properties Theoretical Posits? 2.3 Issues in Language: Reference to Properties in Ordinary Speech 2.4 More Issues in Language: Properties as the Referents of Predicates 2.5 Issues in Metaphysics: Causation 2.6 Issues in Metaphysics: The Ontology of Events 2.7 Issues in Metaphysics: The Ontology of Material Objects 2.8 Tropes, Universals, and States of Affairs 2.9 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties 2.10 Perceptual Qualities 2.11 Doing Metaphysics Further Reading

      5  3 PARTS AND WHOLES 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The Sufficiently Stuck Together Theory 3.3 The Mind‐Dependence Theory of Composition 3.4 Life is the Answer? 3.5 Vagueness 3.6 Vagueness and Composition 3.7 A Radical Answer to the Special Composition Question: Compositional Nihilism 3.8 Another Radical Answer: Compositional Universalism 3.9 Other Questions about Parts and Wholes 3.10 Doing Metaphysics Further Reading

      6  4 POSSIBILITY AND NECESSITY 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Different Kinds of Possibility and Necessity 4.3 The Idea of Possible Worlds 4.4 A Case for Possible Worlds 4.5 Some Theories of the Nature of Possible Worlds 4.6 An Alternative Theory of Possible Worlds: Propositions First 4.7 Another Alternative Theory of Possible Worlds: Primitive Possible Objects 4.8 Accidental and Essential Features 4.9 Theories of Possible Worlds and Theories of Essential Features 4.10 Doing Metaphysics Further Reading

      7  5 TIME 5.1 Introduction to the Philosophy of Time 5.2 Methodological Issues in the Philosophy of Time 5.3 The Container View vs. the Relationalist View 5.4 Does Time Itself Change? 5.5 Time and Reasonable Emotions 5.6 How Do Things Persist through Time? 5.7 Doing Metaphysics Further Reading

      8  6 FREEDOM 6.1 Freedom and Why it Might Matter 6.2 The Static View and Freedom 6.3 Causal Determinism and Freedom 6.4 Compatibilism: Alternative Possibilities Compatibilism 6.5 Compatibilism 2: No Constraints Compatibilism 6.6 Indeterminism 6.7 Laws of Nature 6.8