ABSTRACT

Real Metaphysics brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics.

chapter 1|13 pages

Truthmakers for modal truths

chapter 2|18 pages

Things qua truthmakers

chapter 3|11 pages

Defl ationism

The facts

chapter 4|14 pages

Truth and the theory of communication

chapter 5|16 pages

Subjective facts

chapter 6|14 pages

From H2O to water

The relevance to a priori passage

chapter 8|17 pages

Is causation a genuine relation?

chapter 9|17 pages

Dispositions and conditionals

chapter 10|15 pages

Structural properties

chapter 13|16 pages

Presentism

A critique

chapter 14|27 pages

Real Metaphysics

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