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A collection of new essays by young scholars on the cutting edge of this ancient philosophical area. Diverse topics, including ontology, free will, fundamental properties, and causation, the volume will appeal both to specialists and to anyone interested in the present and future state of metaphysics in the English-speaking world.

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New Waves in Metaphysics presents a snapshot of the current and future state of metaphysics. Thirteen young scholars, working on the cutting edge of the discipline, have addressed themselves to a wide range of questions in contemporary metaphysics, including:
What exists, in the most fundamental sense?
What is the nature of human agency?
Does physics give us knowledge of the fundamental nature of the world?
What is causation?
What is race? Are races real?
Do numbers exist? What might numbers be?
Do ecosystems exist?
Is intentionality a real feature of the world?
These essays will be of interest to specialists in contemporary metaphysics as well as to anyone wanting to discover the diversity and depth of this ancient area of philosophical research.
Cover illustration: White Line, Piscataway, New Jersey, 2008, by Anne Percoco ¸ The Artist A collection of new essays, on diverse issues, which presents a picture of the evolving landscape of contemporary metaphysics

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Foreword to The New Waves in Philosophy Series Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Hazlett Quantification, Naturalness, and Ontology; R.P.Cameron Two Problems of Composition in Collective Action; S.R.Chant Another Look at the Reality of Race, By Which I Mean Racef ; J.Glasgow Bringing Things About; N.Judisch Interpretation: Its Scope and Limits; U.Kriegel Empirical Analyses of Causation; D.Kutach Brutal Individuation; A.Hazlett Ghosts in the World Machine? Humility and Its Alternatives; R.Langton & C.Robichaud Is Everything Relative? Anti-Realism, Truth, and Feminism; M.Mikkola Minimalism and Modality: The Nature of Mathematical Objects; K.Miller Are There Fundamental Intrinsic Properties?; A.Ney On the Very Idea of an Ecosystem; J.Odenbaugh The Prince of Wales Problem for Counterfactual Theories of Causation; C.Sartorio Index

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ROSS P. CAMERON is a Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK SARA RACHEL CHANT is Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA JOSHUA GLASGOW works on a variety of topics in moral and political philosophy NEAL JUDISCH is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma, USA URIAH KRIEGEL is a Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science (and Associate Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies), University of Arizona, USA DOUGLAS KUTACH teaches in the Philosophy department, Brown University, USA RAE LANGTON is Professor of Philosophy at MIT, USA MARI MIKKOLA is a Lecturer in Philosophy, Lancaster University, UK KRISTIE MILLER is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia ALYSSA NEY is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, USA JAY ODENBAUGH is a member of the Department of Philosophy and the Environmental Studies Program at Lewis and Clark College, USA CHRISTOPHER ROBICHAUD is an Instructor in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is finishing his doctorate in philosophy at MIT CAROLINA SARTORIO is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona, USA

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