New Waves in Metaphysics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Allan Hazlett

   Pages 1-7

3. Quantification, Naturalness, and Ontology

   • Ross P. Cameron

   Pages 8-26

4. Two Composition Questions in Action

   • Sara Rachel Chant

   Pages 27-53

5. Another Look at the Reality of Race, By Which I Mean Race

   • Joshua Glasgow

   Pages 54-71

6. Brutal Individuation

   • Allan Hazlett

   Pages 72-90

7. Bringing Things About

   • Neal Judisch

   Pages 91-110

8. Interpretation: Its Scope and Limits

   • Uriah Kriegel

   Pages 111-135

9. Empirical Analyses of Causation

   • Douglas Kutach

   Pages 136-155

10. Ghosts in the World Machine? Humility and Its Alternatives

    • Rae Langton, Christopher Robichaud

    Pages 156-178

11. Is Everything Relative? Anti-Realism, Truth, and Feminism

    • Mari Mikkola

    Pages 179-198

12. The Nature of Mathematical Objects: Minimalism and Modality

    • Kristie Miller

    Pages 199-218

13. Are There Fundamental Intrinsic Properties?

    • Alyssa Ney

    Pages 219-239

14. On the Very Idea of an Ecosystem

    • Jay Odenbaugh

    Pages 240-258

15. The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation

    • Carolina Sartorio

    Pages 259-276

16. Back Matter

    Pages 277-280

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A collection of new essays by young scholars on the cutting edge of this ancient philosophical area. Diverse topics, including ontology, free will, fundamental properties, and causation, the volume will appeal both to specialists and to anyone interested in the present and future state of metaphysics in the English-speaking world.

• metaphysics
• ontology
• philosophy
• truth

• Fordham University, New York, USA

  Allan Hazlett

ROSS P. CAMERON is a Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK SARA RACHEL CHANT is Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA JOSHUA GLASGOW works on a variety of topics in moral and political philosophy NEAL JUDISCH is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma, USA URIAH KRIEGEL is a Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science (and Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies), University of Arizona, USA DOUGLAS KUTACH teaches in the Philosophy department, Brown University, USA RAE LANGTON is Professor of Philosophy at MIT, USA MARI MIKKOLA is a Lecturer in Philosophy, Lancaster University, UK KRISTIE MILLER is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia ALYSSA NEY is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, USA JAY ODENBAUGH is a member of the Department of Philosophy and the Environmental Studies Program at Lewis and Clark College, USA CHRISTOPHER ROBICHAUD is an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is finishing his doctorate in philosophy at MIT CAROLINA SARTORIO is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, USA

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