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, complete causal structure, strict numerical sense, left offshoot, unrestricted composition, prime sentences, substantival space, strict numerical identity, first order predicate language, mere possibilia, responsive dispositions, spatiotemporal zone, mereological sum, thomist metaphysics, causal transmission, trope theory, fission cases, conceptual idealism, ordinary survival, observational concepts, prime state, indexical terms, psychological continuity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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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, complete causal structure, strict numerical sense, left offshoot, unrestricted composition, prime sentences, substantival space, strict numerical identity, first order predicate language, mere possibilia, responsive dispositions, spatiotemporal zone, mereological sum, thomist metaphysics, causal transmission, trope theory, fission cases, conceptual idealism, ordinary survival, observational concepts, prime state, indexical terms, psychological continuity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Clarendon Press, Extreme Modal Realism, Privy Council, David Lewis, Journal of Philosophy, Peter van Inwagen, Summa Theologiae, University of Minnesota Press, Philosophical Perspectives, Thomas Aquinas, University of California Press, Cornell University Press, Critique of Pure Reason, Richard Gale, Sydney Shoemaker, Wilfrid Sellars, Basil Blackwell, Bertrand Russell, Contradiction Problem, Immanuel Kant, Kegan Paul New!
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- Critique of Pure Reason (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant) by Immanuel Kant on 4 pages
- Personal Identity (Great Debates in Philosophy) by Sydney Shoemaker on 4 pages
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume on page 41, page 108, and page 215
- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on page 91, page 106, and page 107
- Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Willard Van Orman Quine on page 64, page 129, 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
- Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical by John Haldane on page 6
- The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Peter Machamer in Front Matter
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