WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US: STUDIES OF ANALYTICAL METAPHYSICS<br> A Selection of Topics from a Methodological Perspective

WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US: STUDIES OF ANALYTICAL METAPHYSICS
A Selection of Topics from a Methodological Perspective
Proceedings of the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop

Ghent, Belgium, 2 - 3 June 2005

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US: STUDIES OF ANALYTICAL METAPHYSICS. A SELECTION OF TOPICS FROM A METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ROBRECHT VANDERBEEKEN and BART D'HOOGHE	1
INTRODUCTION: CONTEMPORARY ANALYTIC METAPHYSICS, ITS CRISIS AND CHALLENGE ROBRECHT VANDERBEEKEN	4
HOLISM AND STRUCTURAL REALISM MICHAEL ESFELD and VINCENT LAM	10
COMMON SENSE, RELATIVITY AND THEORIES OF TIME PHIL DOWE	32
PURELY DISPOSITIONAL WORLDS SUNGHO CHOI	44
NATURAL KINDS — WHAT ARE THEY? JOANNA ODROWAŻ–SYPNIEWSKA	64
PERSONAL IDENTITY, CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND NO-FAULT DISAGREEMENT CAROLINE WEST	87
A WORLD OF TROPES? ANNA-SOFIA MAURIN	107
CAUSAL PLURALISM STATHIS PSILLOS	131
WHY SOCIAL EMERGENCE? DISCUSSING THE USE OF ANALYTICAL METAPHYSICS IN SOCIAL THEORY JEROEN VAN BOUWEL	152
COUNTERFACTUALS, CAUSATION AND HUMEAN SUPERVENIENCE PAUL NOORDHOF	167
DISENTANGLING CAUSAL PLURALISM LEEN DE VREESE	207
MATHEMATICAL ENTITIES LIEVEN DECOCK	224
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