Identity and Modality [Hardcover]

The eleven new papers in this volume address fundamental and interrelated philosophical issues concerning modality and identity, issues that were pivotal to the development of analytic philosophy in the twentieth century, and remain a key focus of debate in the twenty-first.Identity andModalitybrings together leading researchers in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics.

Introduction
I. Modality
1. The Limits of Contingency,Gideon Rosen
2. Modal Infallibilism and Basic Truth,Scott Sturgeon
3. The Modal Fictionalist Predicament,John Divers and Jason Hagen
4. On Realism about Chance,Philip Percival
II. Identity and Individuation
5. Structure and Identity,Stewart Shapiro
6. The Identity Problem for Realist Structuralism II: A Reply to Shapiro,Jukka Keranen
7. The Governance of Identity,Stewart Shapiro
8. The Julius Caesar Objection: More Problematic than Ever,Fraser MacBride
9. Sortals and the Binding Problem,John Campbell
III. Personal Identity
10. Vagueness and Personal Identity,Keith Hossack
11. The Bodily Criterion of Personal Identity,Eric T. Olson

...this is an impressive volume, of significant interest to anyone who wants to stay abreast of developments in contemporary metaphysics. --Matti Eklund,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews