“Contents” in “Nature and Necessity”
CONTENTS
1. The Identity of Physical with Logical Necessity
2. Laws in Ontological Perspective
3. Possible Worlds Controlled by Population
5. Natures and de Dicto Necessity
3. Natural Kinds and the Primacy of Individuals
4. Ontological and Methodological Essentialism
3. Conditional Support and Support for Conditionals
4. Necessities for Evidence Individuals
5. The Possible-Histories Approach
V: The Structure of Physical Individuals
1. Limited Independent Variety
2. Natural Kinds and the Multiplicity of Generators
3. Relations and Limited Variety
5. The Statistical Case and Limited Variety
2. Reference and Inadequate Concepts
3. Are Logical Concepts Adequate to Logical Properties?
4. The Factual Content of Logical Truths
5. Two Classical Arguments for the Apriority of Necessities
2. Relational Properties and Their Foundations
3. Asymmetry Without Relations
4. The Interconnection of the World
2. Temporal Atomism and Temporal Holism
3. Progressive and Complete Actions
5. Action as Required by Temporal Separation
1. Actions Versus Sequences of Conditions
2. The Vectoral Character of Action
4. The Foundations of Temporal Asymmetry
5. The Impossibility of Counterdirected Action
6. The Branch Hypothesis as Superfluous
1. The Stimulus-Response and Fine-Structure Models for Capacities
2. A Regress Problem for the Fine-Structure Model
5. Fine Structures and Natures
1. The Incompatibility of Necessary Connections with an Ontology of Conditions
2. Things as Individuals with the Capacity to Act
3. Capacities, Conditions, and Components
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