Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 18:53:39
Subject: Michal J. Loux, Metaphysics, Contemporary Readings

Hej!

Nu har jag även läst ut läseboken, med 33 originaltexter. Den är också lila men lite annan nyans och har 629 sidor. Eftersom det är olika författare varierar svårighetsgraden, men det mesta är ganska svårt. Men delvis intressant. De kapitel som ingick var 1, 5, 15, 16, 19 och 27 (så jag läste dem lite mer nog än de andra, men har läst allt).

Part I: 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 Element of Being"
5 David Armstrong, "Universals as Attributes"

Part II: 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
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
14 David Hume, Selections from Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature
15 A.C. Ewing, "Cause"
16 G.E.M. Anscombe, "Causality and Determination"
17 J.L. Mackie, "Causes and Conditions"
18 David Lewis, "Causation"

Part V: Time
19 J.M.E. Taggart, "Time"
20 C.D. Broad, "Ostensible Temporality"
21 Richard Taylor, "Time and Eternity"
22 A.N. Prior, "The Notion of the Present"
23 J.J.C. Smart, "The Space-Time World"
24 D.H. Mellor, "The Need for Tense"

Part VI: Persistence Through Time
25 Mark Heller, "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects"
26 Trenton Merricks, "Endurance and Indiscernability"
27 Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity"
28 David Lewis, "Survival and Identity"
29 Richard Swinburne, "Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory"

Part VII: Realism and Anti-Realism
30 Michael Dummett, "Realism"
31 W.V. Quine, "Ontological Relativity"
32 Hilary Putnamn, "A Problem about Reference"
33 Peter Van Inwagen, "Objectivity"

mvh aö