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1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"Ghent, Belgium, 2-3 June 2005." |
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"This volume brings together the lectures presented at the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop held from June 2 to 3, 2005, in Ghent, Belgium."--Page 4 of cover. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Worldviews, science and us: studies of analytical metaphysics. A selection of topics from a methodological perspective / Robrecht Vanderbeeken and Bart D'Hooghe -- Introduction: contemporary analytic metaphysics, it crisis and challenge / Robrecht Vanderbeeken -- Holism and structural realism / Michael Esfeld and Vincent Lam -- Common sense, relativity and theories of time / Phil Dowe -- Purely dispositional worlds / Sungho Choi -- Natural kinds- what are they? / Joanna Odrowa̦ż-Sypniewska -- Personal identity, conceptual analysis and no-fault disagreement / Caroline West -- A world of tropes? / Anna-Sofia Maurin -- Casual pluralism / Stathis Psillos -- Why social emergence? Discussing the use of analytical metaphysics in social theory / Jeroen Van Bouwel -- Counterfactuals, causation and humean supervenience / Paul Noordhof -- Disentangling causal pluralism / Leen de Vreese -- Mathematical entities / Lieven Decock. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Analysis (Philosophy) -- Congresses.
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Analysis (Philosophy) |
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Metaphysics -- Congresses.
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Metaphysics. |
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Philosophy and science -- Congresses.
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Philosophy and science. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Vanderbeeken, Robrecht.
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D'Hooghe, Bart.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Metaphysics of Science Workshop (5th : 2005 : Ghent, Belgium). Worldviews, science, and us. Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2010 9789814295819 (DLC) 2010278371 (OCoLC)613995932 |
| ISBN |
9789814299053 (electronic book) |
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9814299057 (electronic book) |
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9789814295819 |
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9814295817 |
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