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Robinson's Regress Argument from Vagueness to Dualism

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Bibliography

    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2011. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. VI. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603039.001.0001.
    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2012. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. VII. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659081.001.0001.
    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2013. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. VIII. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682904.001.0001.
    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2015. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. IX. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198729242.001.0001.
    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2017. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. X. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198791973.001.0001.
    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2018. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. XI. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198828198.001.0001.
    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2020. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. XII. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192893314.001.0001.
    Bennett, Karen and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2023. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. XIII. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192886033.001.0001.
    Buchak, Lara and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2022. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. vol. X. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192862976.001.0001.
    Buchak, Lara, Zimmerman, Dean W. and Swenson, Philip, eds. 2019. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion. vol. IX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198845492.001.0001.
    Foley, Richard and Zimmerman, Dean W. 2001. “Roderick Chisholm (1916–1999).” in A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, edited by Aloysius P. [Al] Martinich and David Sosa, pp. 281–295. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470998656.
    Hasker, William, Oord, Thomas Jay and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2011a. God in an Open Universe: Science, Metaphysics, and Open Theism. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications.
    Hasker, William, Oord, Thomas Jay and Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011b. “Introduction: Open Theism and the Challenge of Science.” in God in an Open Universe: Science, Metaphysics, and Open Theism, edited by William Hasker, Thomas Jay Oord, and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 1–13. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications.
    van Inwagen, Peter and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 1998. Metaphysics: The Big Questions. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
    van Inwagen, Peter and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2007. Persons. Human and Divine. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Loux, Michael J. and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2003a. The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199284221.001.0001.
    Loux, Michael J. and Zimmerman, Dean W. 2003b. “Introduction.” in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, edited by Michael J. Loux and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 1–10. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199284221.001.0001.
    Sider, Theodore, Hawthorne, John and Zimmerman, Dean W., eds. 2008. Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 10. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1991. “Two Cartesian Arguments for the Simplicity of the Soul.” American Philosophical Quarterly 28(3): 217–226.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1993. “Review of Heller (1990).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53: 220–224.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1994. “Acts, Omissions, and Semi-Compatibilism.” Philosophical Studies 73: 209–223.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1995a. “Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution.” The Philosophical Review 104(1): 53–110, doi:10.2307/2186012.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1995b. “Ist ein Körper-Austausch möglich? Kommentar zu van Inwagen (1995).” in Metaphysik. Neue Zugänge zu alten Fragen, edited by Johannes L. Brandl, Alexander Hieke, and Peter M. Simons, pp. 265–268. Conceptus-Studien n. 11. Sankt Augustin b. Bonn: Academia Verlag. Proceedings of the 3rd congress of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Salzburg 1994.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1996a. “Persistence and Presentism.” Philosophical Papers 25(2): 115–126.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1996b. “Could Extended Objects Be Made Out of Simple Parts? An Argument for ‘Atomless Gunk’ .” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56(1): 1–29.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1996c. “Indivisible Parts and Extended Objects: Some Philosophical Episodes from Topology’s History.” The Monist 79(1): 148–180.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1997a. “Immanent Causation.” in Philosophical Perspectives 11: Mind, Causation, and World, edited by James E. Tomberlin, pp. 433–471. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1997b. “Coincident Objects: Could a Stuff Ontology Help?” Analysis 57(1): 19–27.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1997c. “Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory.” Mind 106(422): 305–309. Reprinted in revised form in van Inwagen and Zimmerman (1998, 58–66).
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1997d. “Chisholm and the Essence of Events.” in The Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm, edited by Lewis Edwin Hahn, pp. 73–100. The Library of Living Philosophers n. 25. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1998a. “Temporal Parts and Supervenient Causation: The Incompatibility of Two Humean Doctrines.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76(2): 265–288, doi:10.1080/00048409812348401.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1998b. “Criteria of Identity and the ‘Identity Mystics’ .” Erkenntnis 48: 281–301.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1998c. “Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism.” in Metaphysics: The Big Questions, edited by Peter van Inwagen and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 206–219. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1998d. “Materialism and Survival.” in Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions, edited by Eleonore Stump and Michael J. Murray, pp. 379–386. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1999a. “One Really Big Liquid Sphere: Reply to Lewis [Lewis (1999)].” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77: 213–215.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 1999b. “The Compatibility of Materialism and Survival: The ‘Falling Elevator’ Model.” Faith and Philosophy 16. Reprinted in Rea (2009, 328–346).
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2000. “Shoemaker’s Argument for his Theory of Properties.” Facta Philosophica 2: 271–290.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2001. “Personal Identity and the Method of Cases.” Unpublished manuscript.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2002a.“Scala (2002) and the Spinning Spheres.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 398–405.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2002b. “Persons and Bodies: Constitution Without Mereology? [on Baker (2000)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(3): 599–606.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2002c. “God Inside Time and Before Creation.” in God and Time. Essays on the Divine Nature, edited by Gregory E. Ganssle and David M. Woodruff, pp. 75–94. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195129656.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2002d. “The Constitution of Persons by Bodies: A Critique of Lynne Rudder Baker’s Theory of Material Constitution.” Philosophical Topics 30(1): 295–338.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2003. “Material People.” in The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics, edited by Michael J. Loux and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 491–526. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199284221.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W., ed. 2004a. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199267729.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2004b. “Prologue: Metaphysics after the Twentieth Century.” in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume I, edited by Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. ix–xxii. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199267729.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2004c. “Christians should Affirm Mind-Body Dualism.” in Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Michael L. Peterson and Raymond J. VanArragon, pp. 315–326. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 1. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2005a. “The A-Theory of Time, the B-Theory of Time, and ‘Taking Tense Seriously’ .” Dialectica 59(4): 401–457, doi:10.1111/j.1746-8361.2005.01041.x.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2005b. “Dualism in the Philosophy of Mind.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
    Zimmerman, Dean W., ed. 2006a. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199290581.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2006b. “Can One ‘Take Tense Seriously’ and Be a B-Theorist? [postscript to Zimmerman (1998c)].” in Persistence. Contemporary Readings, edited by Sally Haslanger and Roxanne Marie Kurtz, pp. 404–424. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2006c. “God, Evil, and the Contemplation of Infinitely Many Options.” Philosophic Exchange 36: 79–120.
    Zimmerman, Dean W., ed. 2007a. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. III. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199218394.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2007b. “Three Introductory Questions: Is Analytic Philosophical Theology an Oxymoron? Is Substance Dualism Incoherent? What’s in this Book, Anyway?” in Persons. Human and Divine, edited by Peter van Inwagen and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 1–32. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2007c. “The Privileged Present: Defending an ‘A-Theory’ of Time.” in Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, edited by Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 211–225. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 10. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Zimmerman, Dean W., ed. 2008a. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. IV. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199542987.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2008b. “Problems for Animalism [on Olson (2007)].” Abstracta – Linguagem, Mente e Ação special issue(1): 23–31.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2009a. “Yet Another Anti-Molinist Argument.” in Metaphysics and the Good. Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams, edited by Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen, pp. 33–94. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542680.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2009b. “Properties, Minds, and Bodies: An Examination of Sydney Shoemaker’s Metaphysics.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 78(3): 673–738.
    Zimmerman, Dean W., ed. 2010a. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. vol. V. New York: Oxford University Press.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2010b. “From Property Dualism to Substance Dualism.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 84: 119–150, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8349.2010.00189.x.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2010c. “Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited.” in Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Deaths?, edited by Georg Gasser, pp. 33–50. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2010d. “Time and Open Theism.” in Science and Religion in Dialogue, edited by Melville Y. Stewart, pp. 791–809. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444317350.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011a. “Presentism and the Space-Time Manifold.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time, edited by Craig Callender, pp. 163–245. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298204.003.0008.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011b. “Saving God from Saving God.” Unpublished manuscript.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011c. “Open Theism and the Metaphysics of the Space-Time Manifold.” in God in an Open Universe: Science, Metaphysics, and Open Theism, edited by William Hasker, Thomas Jay Oord, and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 125–157. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011d. “Pro Haskeris Contradictione [on Hasker (2011)].” in Molinism. The Contemporary Debate, edited by Kenneth J. Perszyk, pp. 78–89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590629.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011e. “An Anti-Molinist Replies.” in Molinism. The Contemporary Debate, edited by Kenneth J. Perszyk, pp. 163–186. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590629.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011f. “A Précis of Zimmerman (2009a).” in Molinism. The Contemporary Debate, edited by Kenneth J. Perszyk, pp. 140–143. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590629.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2011g. “From Experience to Experiencer.” in The Soul Hypothesis. Investigations into the Existence of the Soul, edited by Mark C. Baker and Stewart C. Goetz, pp. 168–201. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2012a. “The Providential Usefulness of ‘Simple Foreknowledge’ .” in Reason, Metaphysics, and Mind. New Essays on the Philosophy of Alvin Plantinga, edited by Kelly James Clark and Michael C. Rea, pp. 174–196. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766864.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2012b. “Materialism, Dualism, and ‘Simple’ Theories of Personal Identity.” in Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?, edited by Georg Gasser and Matthias Stefan, pp. 206–235. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139028486.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2012c. “Personal Identity and the Survival of Death.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death, edited by Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman, and Jens Johansson, pp. 97–154. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195388923.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2016. “Defining Omnipotence.” in Reason and Faith. Themes from Richard Swinburne, edited by Michael Bergmann and Jeffrey E. Brower, pp. 84–125. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732648.001.0001.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2019a. “Jewels in the Ontological Trash Heap: Mark Johnston’s Metaphysics of Persons.” in Current Controversies in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Paul Draper, pp. 69–89. Current Controversies in Philosophy. New York: Routledge.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2019b. “Resisting Rowe’s No-Best-World Argument for Atheism.” in Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen, edited by Mirosław Szatkowski, pp. 443–468. Philosophical Analysis n. 81. Berlin: de Gruyter, doi:10.1515/9783110664812.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. 2020. “Robinson’s Regress Argument from Vagueness to Dualism [critical notice of Robinson (2016)].” Dialectica 74(3), doi:10.48106/dial.v74.i3.05.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. n.d. “A Recent Defense of Monism Based Upon the Internal Relatedness of All Things.” Unpublished manuscript.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. and Chisholm, Roderick M. 1997. “Theology and Tense.” Noûs 31(2): 262–265.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. and Hawthorne, John, eds. 2003. Philosophical Perspectives 17: Language and Philosophical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
    Zimmerman, Dean W. and Hawthorne, John, eds. 2004. Philosophical Perspectives 18: Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Further References

    Baker, Lynne Rudder. 2000. Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139173124.
    Hasker, William. 2011. “Materialism and the Resurrection: Are the Prospects Improving?” European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 3(1): 83–103.
    Heller, Mark. 1990. The Ontology of Physical Objects: Four Dimensional Hunks of Matter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    van Inwagen, Peter. 1995. God, Knowledge, and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
    Lewis, David. 1999. “Zimmerman and the Spinning Sphere.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77: 209–212.
    Olson, Eric T. 2007. What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176421.001.0001.
    Rea, Michael C., ed. 2009. Providence, Scripture, and Resurrection. Oxford Readings in Philosophical Theology n. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    Robinson, Howard. 2016. From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance. Resurrecting the Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781316092873.
    Scala, Mark. 2002. “Homogeneous Simples.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64(2): 393–397.