This flexible textbook is both an introduction and a reader in metaphysics combining original discussion with selections from primary sources.
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This flexible textbook is both an introduction and a reader in metaphysics combining original discussion with selections from primary sources. This text shows that important social, political and moral concerns involve metaphysical questions and that important metaphysical positions have practical implications. It discusses major metaphysical topics such as God, Freedom, Mind, Causality, Value, and Universals as well as important historical and contemporary critiques of metaphysics. Each chapter is followed by selections from classic and contemporary texts, allowing for in-depth study of primary sources.
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Heimir Geirsson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He is the co-editor, with Michael Losonsky, of Readings in Language and Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and has published on philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and epistemology in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, and Journal of Philosophical Research.
Michael Losonsky is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is the co-editor, with Heimir Geirsson, of Readings in Language and Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1996). He has published on contemporary metaphysics in American Philosophical Quarterly, Minds and Machines, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy, amongst others. He has also published on metaphysics in the history of modern philosophy in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Pragmatics and Cognition, among others.
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Metaphysics made easier or explained very well.,
This review is from: Beginning Metaphysics: An Introductory Text with Readings (Hardcover)
For the reader who is not a philosopher and who has hitherto not made Aristotle's acquaintance may do well to by-pass temporarily the metaphysics. It is easier to understand him talking of the usefulness of organs in animal bodies, or of the differences between a brave man and a reckless one, or of the causes of revolution in states, or of the structure of a good play, than discoursing on the causes and nature of the universe being and existence as such. However, this book makes it easier for somebody coming to metaphysics for the first time. Nevertheless I personally would recommend reading some of Aristotle's work first before going into metaphysics. This book takes the reader through step by step as any good instructor should. I recommend this book to anyone who would consider reading or coming to metaphysics for the first time. I wouldn't be surprised to see this book at any university.
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Deep Self View, New York, Cambridge University Press, Professor of Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, Big Bang, David Hume, Harvard University Press, John Locke, Philosophical Review, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Reid, University of California, Clarendon Press, Vienna Circle, Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Active Powers, Could God, Rudolf Carnap, Samuel Clarke, The Second Sex, Two Conceptions of Moral Realism, William James, All-good World New!
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At one time or another all of us find ourselves wondering about what there really is. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Deep Self View, New York, Cambridge University Press, Professor of Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, Big Bang, David Hume, Harvard University Press, John Locke, Philosophical Review, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Reid, University of California, Clarendon Press, Vienna Circle, Oxford University Press, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Active Powers, Could God, Rudolf Carnap, Samuel Clarke, The Second Sex, Two Conceptions of Moral Realism, William James, All-good World New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 121, page 122, and page 132
- Aspects of Scientific Explanation: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science by Carl G. Hempel on page 274, and page 282
- International Library of Philosophy: Philosophical Studies by G.E. Moore on page 119, and page 120
- Principia Ethica by G. E. Moore on page 90, and page 120
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn on page 181, and page 274
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