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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |81 pages
The Nature of Particulars
part |19 pages
Substance and Independent Existence
part |131 pages
Identity Over Time
part |45 pages
Identity, Matter, and Motion
part |103 pages
Theories of Actuality