Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 8

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

• Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Younger Scholar Prize Announcement ; I. FINDING THE FUNDAMENTAL ; 1. Naturalness ; 2. Fundamental Properties of Fundamental Properties ; 3. Absolutism vs. Comparativism about Quantity ; II. ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENTS: WORDS AND SLOTS ; 4. Modal Quantification without Worlds ; 5. Slots in Universals ; III. MEREOLOGY ; 6. Against Parthood ; 7. Composition as General Identity ; 8. Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity ; IV. THE A-THEORY OF TIME ; 9. Living on the Brink, or Welcome Back, Growing Block! ; 10. Fighting the Zombie of the Growing Salami ; 11. Changing Truthmakers: Reply to Tallant and Ingram