Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 11

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a forum for the best new work in this flourishing field. OSM offers a broad view of the subject, featuring not only the traditionally central topics such as existence, identity, modality, time, and causation, but also the rich clusters of metaphysical questions in neighbouring fields, such as philsophy of mind and philosophy of science. Besides independent essays, volumes will often contain a critical essay on a recent book, or a symposium that allows participants to respond to one another's criticisms and questions. Anyone who wants to know what's happening in metaphysics can start here.

Karen Bennett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.

Dean W. Zimmerman is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

I: Relationism & Substantivalism
1. The Structure of Spacetime: A New Approach to the Spacetime Ontology Debate, Jill North
2. Relative Locations, Andrew Bacon
II: Time and Change
3. A Passage Theory of Time, Martin Lipman
4. Fragmenting the Wave Function, Jonathan Simon
III: Recombination, Relations, and Supervenience
5. Possible Patterns, Jeffrey Sanford Russell and John Hawthorne
6. Plural Slot Theory, T. Scott Dixon
7. Local Qualities, Elizabeth Miller
Part IV: Vagueness
8. Vague Naturalness as Ersatz Metaphysical Vagueness, Rohan Sud
9. Against 'Against "Against Vague Existence"', Roberto Loss