This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett. These essays are followed by four short dialogues that emphasize and summarize some of the main points of the essays and discuss new perspectives that have emerged since their original publication.
The volume covers topics on the metaphysics of time, the nature of identity, and the nature and importance of persons and human beings. The chapters constitute the fruits of almost four decades of philosophical research, from Brian's two award-winning essays, published in Analysis in 1983 and The Philosophical Quarterly in 1992, to his latest ideas about Fatalism and the Grandfather Paradox.

This book will be of interest to students and professional philosophers in the field of analytic philosophy.

Offers an Overview of the Metaphysics of Time, Identity and the Self Concludes with Four New Dialogues on Key Issues in Contemporary Metaphysics Provides a Glimpse of How Contemporary (Analytic) Metaphysics is Done

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Brian Garrett is a Professor at the School of Philosophy, The Australian National University. He specializes in analytic philosophy and metaphysics. He is the author of What is this thing called metaphysics? (Routledge, 2006; 2011; 2016), Elementary Logic (Acumen, 2012), and Personal Identity and Self-Consciousness (Routledge, 1998). He has published articles in top philosophy journals, like Mind, Analysis, The Philosophical Quarterly, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Jeremiah Joven Joaquin is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, where he is also a Research Fellow at the Southeast Asian Research Center and Hub and a Research Affiliate at the Center for Language Technologies. He specializes in metaphysics and logic. Presently, he is the President of the Philosophical Association of the Philippines and the founding Secretary-General of the Union of Societies and Associations of Philosophy in the Philippines.

Inhalt
Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgement.- Part I. Time. 1. "Thank Goodness that's Over Revisited.- 2. Experience and Time.- 3. Max Black and Backward Causation.- 4. Dummett on Reasons to Act and Bringing about the Past.- 5. Dummett on McTaggart's Proof of the Unreality of Time.- 6. A Note on the Grandfather Paradox.- 7. Bulletproof Grandfathers, David Lewis, and 'Can't'-Judgements.- 8. A Dilemma for Eternalists.- Part II. Identity. 9. Identity and Extrinsicness.- 10. Best Candidate Theories and Identity.- 11 PossibleWorlds and Identity.- 12. Vague Identity and Vague Objects.- 13. More on Rigidity and Scope.- 14. Enduring Endurantism.- 15. Identity of Truth-Conditions.- Part III. The Self. 16. Some Notes on Animalism.- 17. Persons and Human Beings.- 18. The Story of 'I': Comments on Rudder-Baker's Constitution View of Persons.- 19. Personal Identity and Extrinsicness.- 20. Personal Identity and Reductionism.- 21. Bermúdez on Self-Consciousness.- 22. Anscombe on 'I'.- 23. Wittgenstein on the First-Person.- 24. Persons and Values.- Part IV. Afterthoughts. 25. About Time.- 26. Affecting the Past.- 27. Of Identity.- 28. On Personal Identity.- Index.