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0198729243, 9780198729242

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Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
The Sanders Prize in Metaphysics
INFINITIES
1. On infinite size • Bruno Whittle
2. Whittle’s assault on Cantor’s paradise • Vann McGee
3. Reply to Vann McGee’s ‘Whittle’s assault on Cantor’s paradise’ • Bruno Whittle
4. Problems with plurals • Alexander Pruss and Joshua Rasmussen
METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES, OLD AND NEW
5. The unreasonable effectiveness of abstract metaphysics • Daniel Nolan
6. Paraphrase, semantics, and ontology • John A. Keller
7. Analyticity and ontology • Louis deRosset
8. Naturalizing metaphysics with the help of cognitive science • Alvin I. Goldman
GROUNDING, SUPERVENIENCE, AND CONSTITUTION
9. Multiple constitution • Nicholas K. Jones
10. Half-hearted Humeanism • Aaron Segal
11. The coarse-grainedness of grounding • Kathrin Koslicki
12. A universe of explanations • Ghislain Guigon
COMMENTS
13. Return of the living dead: reply to Braddon-Mitchell • Fabrice Correia and Sven Rosenkranz
Author Index

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