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PART I: UNIVERSALS The Problem of Universals 1 Bertrand Russell, "The World of Universals" 2 H. H. Price, "Universals and Resemblances" 3 W. V. Quine, "On What There Is" 4 D. C. Williams, "The Elements of Being" 5 David Armstrong, "Universals as Attributes" PART II: PARTICULARS The Ontological Structure of Concrete Particulars 6 Max Black, "The Identity of Indiscernibles" 7 Edwin B. Allaire, "Bare Particulars" 8 James Van Cleve, "Three Versions of the Bundle Theory" 9 Albert Casullo, "A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory" PART III: POSSIBLE WORLDS Modality and Possible Worlds 10 David Lewis, "Possible Worlds" 11 Alvin Plantinga, "Actualism and Possible Worlds" 12 David Lewis, "Counterparts or Double Lives?" 13 Saul Kripke, "Identity and Necessity" PART IV: CAUSATION Cause and Effect 251 14 David Hume, Selections from Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature 257 15 A. C. Ewing, "Cause" 274 16 G. E. M. Anscombe, "Causality and Determination" 284 17 J. L. Mackie, "Causes and Conditions" 301 18 David Lewis, "Causation" 326 PART V: TIME Time: The A-Theory and the B-Theory 341 19 J. M. E. McTaggart, "Time" 350 20 C. D. Broad, "Ostensible Temporality" 362 21 Richard Taylor, "Time and Eternity" 369 22 A. N. Prior, "The Notion of the Present" 379 23 J. J. C. Smart, "The Space-Time World" 384 24 D. H. Mellor, "The Need for Tense" 394 PART VI: PERSISTENCE THROUGH TIME Endurantism and Perdurantism 411 25 Mark Heller, "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects" 418 26 Trenton Merricks, "Endurance and Indiscernibility" 443 27 Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity" 464 28 David Lewis, "Survival and Identity" 485 29 Richard Swinburne, "Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory" 510 PART VII: REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM Realism and Anti-Realism 30 Michael Dummett, "Realism" 31 W. V. Quine, "Ontological Relativity" 32 Hilary Putnam, "A Problem about Reference" 33 Peter Van Inwagen, "Objectivity" |