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Articles on Metaphysics
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Analysis 52: 12-17. Burke, M. B. (1994a). Preserving the principle of one object to a place: A novel account of the relations among objects, sorts, sortals, and persistence conditions. "Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 54(3), 591-624. Burke, M. B. (1994b). "Dion and Theon: An essentialist solution to an ancient puzzle." The Journal of Philosophy, 91(3), 129-139. Burke, M. B. (1996). Tibbles the cat: A Modern "Sophisma". Philosophical Studies, 84(1), 63-74. Burke, M. B. (1997). Coinciding objects: reply to Lowe and Denkel. Analysis, 57(1), 11-18. Burke, M. B. (2004). Dion, Theon, and the many-thinkers problem. Analysis, 64(3), 242-250. Butler, J. (1838). "Of Personal Identity," The Whole Works of Joseph Butler. Carnap, R. (1988). Meaning and necessity: a study in semantics and modal logic. University of Chicago Press. Carter, W. R. 1982. "On Contingent Identity and Temporal Worms." Philosophical Studies 41: 213-30. Carter, W. R. 1983. "In Defense of Undetached Parts." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64: 126-43. Charlton, W. 1970. Aristotle's Physics, I, II. Oxford: Clarendon. Charlton, W. (1972). "Aristotle and the Principle of Individuation." Phronesis, 239-249. Chisholm, Roderick. 1966. Theory of Knowledge. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Chisholm, Roderick. 1973. "Parts as Essential to Their Wholes." Review of Metaphysics 26: 581-603. Chisholm, Roderick. 1976. Person and Object. La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Company. Chisholm, Roderick M.(1989) On Metaphysics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Cohen, S. M. (1984). "Aristotle and individuation." Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 14(sup1), 41-65. Evans, Gareth. 1978. "Can There Be Vague Objects?" Analysis 38: 208. Frege, G., Geach, P. T., & Black, M. (1951). On concept and object. Mind, 60(238), 168-180. Geach, P. T. 1965. "Some Problems about Time." Proceedings of the British Academy 51: 320-36. Geach, P. T. 1967. "Identity." Review of Metaphysics 21: 3-12. Geach, P. 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Analysis, 55(3), 171-178. Lowe, E. J. (1998). The Possibility of Metaphysics. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. Lowe, E. J. (2002). A Survey of Metaphysics. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. Lowe, E. J. (2006). "Non-Cartesian substance dualism and the problem of mental causation. Erkenntnis, 65(1), 5-23. Lowe, E. J., & Noonan, H. W. (1988). "Substance, identity and time." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, 62, 61-100. Marcus, R. B. (1961). Modalities and intensional languages. Synthése, 13(4), 303-322. Marcus, R. B. (1975, January). Dispensing with possibilia. In Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association (Vol. 49, pp. 39-51). Barcan Marcus, R. (1985). Possibilia and Possible Worlds. in Modalities . Munitz, Milton, ed. 1971. Identity and Individuation. New York: New York University Press. Noonan, Harold. 1976. "Wiggins on Identity." Mind 85: 559-75. Noonan, Harold. 1985a. "Wiggins, Artefact Identity and 'Best Candidate' Theories." Analysis 45:4-8. Noonan, Harold. 1985b. "The Closest Continuer Theory of Identity." Inquiry 28: 195-229. Noonan, Harold. 1988, "Reply to Lowe on Ships and Structures." Analysis 48: 221-23. Noonan, H. W. (1993). "Constitution is identity." Mind, 102(405), 133-146. Olson, E. T. (2001). "Material coincidence and the indiscernibility problem." The Philosophical Quarterly, 51(204), 337-355. Quine, W. V. 1943. "Notes on Existence and Necessity." The Journal of Philosophy 40 (5) p.113 Quine, W. V. 1947. "The Problem of Interpreting Modal Logic." The Journal of Symbolic Logic 12 (2) p.43 Quine, W. V. 1950. "Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis." Quine, W. V. I960. Word and Object. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Quine, W. V. 1961. "Reference and Modality." In Quine 1980, 139-59. Quine, W. V. 1969. Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. New York: Columbia University Press. Quine, W. V. 1980. From a Logical Point of View, 2d ed. 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