The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics offers the most authoritative and compelling guide to this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. Twenty-four of the worlds most distinguished specialists provide brand-new essays about what kinds of things there are in what ways they exist and how they relate to each other. They give the latest word on such topics as identity modality time causation persons and minds freedom and vagueness. The Handbooks unrivalled breadth and depth make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the philosophical spectrum.