The only anthology available on material constitution, this book collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
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Material Constitution has collected together many of the best and most important papers on the topic. This volume should find its way to the bookshelf of anyone working on the ontology of material objects. -- Mark Heller, Southern Methodist University A fine collection . . . Rea's introductory essay is absolutely top-notch. -- Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame It [ will] be a well- and often-used collection for a long time to come. -- Ernest Sosa, Brown University
Foreword ix(4) Peter van Inwagen Acknowledgments xiii(2) Introduction xv Michael C. Rea Part I: Coincident Entities 3(90) 1 On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time 3(7) David Wiggins 2 Spatially Coinciding Objects 10(15) Frederick C. Doepke 3 Parthood and Identity Across Time 25(19) Judith Jarvis Thomson 4 Constitution Is Not Identity 44(19) Mark Johnston 5 Subjects Among Other Things 63(30) Ernest Sosa Part II: Contingent Identity and Counterpart Theory 93(82) 6 Contingent Identity 93(33) Allan Gibbard 7 Counterparts or Double Lives? (Selections) 126(22) David Lewis 8 Identity and Time 148(27) George Myro Part III: Eliminativism and Dominant Kinds 175(98) 9 I Do Not Exist 175(16) Peter Unger 10 The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts 191(18) Peter van Inwagen 11 Identity through Time 209(27) Roderick M. Chisholm 12 Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place: A Novel Account of the Relations Among Objects, Sorts, Sortals, and Persistence Conditions 236(37) Michael B. Burke Part IV: Indeterminacy Solutions 273(32) 13 Entities Without Identity 273(17) Terence Parsons 14 De Re Modality Entails De Re Vagueness 290(15) Frances Howard-Snyder Part V: Relative Identity and Temporal Parts 305(26) 15 Reference and Generality (Selections) 305(8) Peter T. Geach 16 Constitutivity and Identity 313(7) Hugh S. Chandler 17 Temporal Parts of Four Dimensional Objects 320(11) Mark Heller Appendix: A Formal Statement of the Problem 331(2) Select Bibliography 333(10) Index 343(6) About the Contributors 349
Michael Rea is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delaware.
