ABSTRACT

Volume 4 in the 5-volume series titled Analytical Metaphysics. The essays in this volume are concerned with three main issues. First, what account can be given of the nature of a particular? Second, is identity over time a basic and irreducible relation, or can it be analysed? If so, what is the correct analysis? Third, what account can be offered of what it is to be actual? The final account of this volume involves the claim that actuality is a special property that is possessed by one, and only one, possible world.

chapter

Introduction

part |81 pages

The Nature of Particulars

part |19 pages

Substance and Independent Existence

part |131 pages

Identity Over Time

chapter |13 pages

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Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis 1

chapter |16 pages

Problems of Identity

chapter |12 pages

Identity Through Time *

chapter |11 pages

Four-Dimensional Objects

part |45 pages

Identity, Matter, and Motion

part |103 pages

Theories of Actuality

chapter |3 pages

One of the Truths about Actuality

chapter |14 pages

Anselm and Actuality 1

chapter |24 pages

Indexicality and Actuality

chapter |21 pages

Theories of Actuality

chapter |39 pages

Actualism and Thisness *