Oxford Studies in Metaphysics volume 6

Karen Bennett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.Dean W. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

• I. MINIMIZING ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS ; 1. Ontological Nihilism ; 2. Truthmaking for Presentists ; II. METAPHYSICAL VAGUENESS ; 3. A Theory of Metaphysical Indeterminacy ; 4. Being Metaphysically Unsettled: Barnes and Williams on Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vagueness ; 5. Response to Eklund ; 6. Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vague Existence ; III. MEREOLOGY AND LOCATION ; 7. Mereological Harmony ; 8. Parthood and Location ; IV. PERSONAL IDENTITY ; 9. Externalism and Brain Transplants

does great work in rejuvenating philosophical debate, bringing to the attention of the wider field work done in debates that are too often in danger of being pursued in separate ivory towers, and indeed, engaging with disciplines beyond philosophy