The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers that demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality, ontology, personal identity, idealism, and realism.
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"If you want to find out what's going on at the leading edge of current metaphysics, there is no better place to look than this volume of new essays by some of the most original and productive minds now working in this field. The topics they discuss range far and wide, encompassing many central issues of metaphysics such as causation, time, the self, events, ontological categories, and the relation between physics and metaphysics. This book is not only a ‘guide' to metaphysics but also includes substantial new contributions to the field." Jaegwon Kim, Brown University
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The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers who demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality, ontology, personal identity, idealism, and realism.
Although metaphysics has been under attack for a long time now, and from a variety of quarters in philosophy, the essays in this volume demonstrate that there is a wide range of important questions which cannot be productively addressed without coming to terms with its questions and commitments.
This book engages both general readers and specialists and provides a solid foundation for further study.
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logical nonrealism, partial describer, metaphysical nonrealism, gerundial nominals, complete causal structure, reliable differential responsive dispositions, strict numerical sense, left offshoot, prime sentences, unrestricted composition, thomist metaphysics, substantival space, strict numerical identity, first order predicate language, noninferential reports, mere possibilia, spatiotemporal zone, conceptual idealism, mereological sum, causal transmission, ersatz worlds, trope theory, fission cases, ordinary survival, plural quantifiers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Extreme Modal Realism, Clarendon Press, Privy Council, David Lewis, Journal of Philosophy, Contradiction Problem, Peter van Inwagen, Summa Theologiae, University of Minnesota Press, Cornell University Press, Philosophical Perspectives, Thomas Aquinas, University of California Press, John Locke, Material Beings, Richard Gale, Sydney Shoemaker, Wilfrid Sellars, Basil Blackwell, Bertrand Russell, Critique of Pure Reason New!
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Newton's masterful scientific achievement was constructed under the influence of much previous philosophical discussion and controversy that went beyond the limits of scientific debate narrowly construed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
logical nonrealism, partial describer, metaphysical nonrealism, gerundial nominals, complete causal structure, reliable differential responsive dispositions, strict numerical sense, left offshoot, prime sentences, unrestricted composition, thomist metaphysics, substantival space, strict numerical identity, first order predicate language, noninferential reports, mere possibilia, spatiotemporal zone, conceptual idealism, mereological sum, causal transmission, ersatz worlds, trope theory, fission cases, ordinary survival, plural quantifiers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Extreme Modal Realism, Clarendon Press, Privy Council, David Lewis, Journal of Philosophy, Contradiction Problem, Peter van Inwagen, Summa Theologiae, University of Minnesota Press, Cornell University Press, Philosophical Perspectives, Thomas Aquinas, University of California Press, John Locke, Material Beings, Richard Gale, Sydney Shoemaker, Wilfrid Sellars, Basil Blackwell, Bertrand Russell, Critique of Pure Reason New!
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- On the Plurality of Worlds by David Lewis on 6 pages
- Personal Identity (Great Debates in Philosophy) by Sydney Shoemaker on 4 pages
- Material Beings by Peter van Inwagen on 4 pages
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 4 pages
- Mind and World by John McDowell on page 261, page 279, and page 301
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- Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue by Craig Paterson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Alexander R. Pruss in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Hugh Lafollette in Front Matter
- The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Robert L. Simon in Front Matter
- The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Peter Machamer in Front Matter
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