The atlas of reality: a comprehensive guide to metaphysics

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Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. Edited by Timothy H. Pickavance (2017)
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The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key topics, concepts, and guiding principles of metaphysics. Represents the most comprehensive guide to metaphysics available today Offers authoritative coverage of the full range of topics that comprise the field of metaphysics in an accessible manner while considering competing views Explores key concepts such as space, time, powers, universals, and composition with clarity and depth Articulates coherent packages of metaphysical theses that include neo-Aristotelian, Quinean, Armstrongian, and neo-Humean Carefully tracks the use of common assumptions and methodological principles in metaphysics.

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Introduction.  (pages 1–12)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Truthmakers.  (pages 13–46)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Grounding, Ontological Dependence, and Fundamentality.  (pages 47–73)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Conditionals.  (pages 75–93)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Laws of Nature.  (pages 94–105)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Powers and Properties.  (pages 106–122)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Universals.  (pages 123–146)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Reductive Nominalism and Trope Theory.  (pages 147–170)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Particulars and the Problem of Individuation.  (pages 171–200)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Relations, Structures, and Quantities.  (pages 201–225)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Nihilism and Monism.  (pages 227–252)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
The Non‐Existent and the Vaguely Existing.  (pages 253–280)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Solipsism, Idealism, and the Problem of Perception.  (pages 281–313)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Possibility, Necessity, and Actuality: Concretism.  (pages 315–331)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Abstractionism: Worlds as Representations.  (pages 332–351)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
De Re Modality and Modal Knowledge.  (pages 352–370)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Is Space Merely Relational?  (pages 371–389)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Structure of Space: Points vs. Regions.  (pages 390–414)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
The Structure of Time.  (pages 415–429)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Time's Passage.  (pages 430–457)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Arguments for Anti‐Tensism.  (pages 458–478)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Material Composition: The Special Question.  (pages 479–513)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Composition: The General Question.  (pages 514–530)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Change and Persistence.  (pages 531–554)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
The Persistence of Composite Things.  (pages 555–574)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
The Existence and Scope of Causation.  (pages 575–590)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Causation: A Relation between Things or Truths?  (pages 591–612)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Discrete and Continuous Causation.  (pages 613–623)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons
Conclusion: The Four Packages.  (pages 624–632)Timothy H. Pickavance & Robert C. Koons

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