title: Oxford American College Dictionary
author: Oxford University Press
description: Listen up, students. This new reference, based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, released in October 2001, offers more than 175,000 entries plus neat features like country guides, boxed quotes, and a new way of organizing definitions.<BR>Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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  O X F O R D S T U D I E S I N M E T A P H Y S I C S
  
  O X F O R D S T U D I E S I N M E T A P H Y S I C S
  
  Editorial Advisory Board
  
  David Chalmers (Australasian National University) Tamar Gendler (Syracuse
  University)
  
  Sally Haslanger (MIT)
  
  John Hawthorne (Oxford University)
  
  Kathrin Koslicki (Tufts University)
  
  E. J. Lowe (University of Durham)
  
  Brian McLaughlin (Rutgers University)
  
  Trenton Merricks (University of Virginia)
  
  Kevin Mulligan (Universite´ de Genève)
  
  Theodore Sider (Rutgers University)
  
  Timothy Williamson (Oxford University)
  
  Managing Editor
  
  Jason Turner (Rutgers University)
  
  O X F O R D S T U D I E S I N
  
  M E T A P H Y S I C S
  
  Volume 3
  
  Edited by
  
  Dean W. Zimmerman
  
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  Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp
  
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