LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS

LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS

Last Updated 15/08/05

BACK TO LPSG CONTENTS

1. The Paper
2. General Reading
* Anthologies
* Books
3. Topics
* Language and Logic
o Sense and reference
o Descriptions
o Names
o Conditionals
o Existence
o Validity, Logical Consequence and Entailment
o Alternative Logics
o Vagueness
* Truth and Objectivity
o Theories of truth
o Realism, idealism and anti-realism
o Subjective and objective
* Mind and Nature
o The place of the mind in nature
o Reduction and supervenience
o Personal identity
o Free will
o Freedom and Determinism
o Freedom and Free Will
* Necessity and analyticity
o The nature of necessity / necessary truth
o Modal logic and possible worlds
* Identity
o Identity and necessity
o Identity and individuation
o Personal identity
* Objects, substances and events
o Substance
o Persistence
o The composition of objects
o Events
* Universals
o Particulars and their properties
o Nominalism and realism
o The nature of universals
* Causation and Laws
o The analysis of causation: regularity and counterfactuals
o What are causes and effects?
o Causation and causal explanation
o Laws of Nature
o Probabilistic causation
* Time and Space
o Time and 'tense' (the 'flow' of time)
o Time, change and reductionism about time and space
o The direction of time and the direction of causation