Buch, Englisch, 792 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1333 g
Buch, Englisch, 792 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1333 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-926197-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, which set the extracts in context and guide the reader through them.
The book is divided into 10 sections, providing instructors with flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses. It contains 54 important writings on metaphysics, with introductions to each section, discussion questions and detailed guides to further reading. Perfect for undergraduate courses, this book offers the ideal self-contained introduction to metaphysics.
Zielgruppe
Undergraduate students of metaphysics in the UK, US, Canada and Australasia.
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- I God
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- 1: Derek Parfit: Why Anything? Why This?
- 2: Thomas Aquinas: The five ways
- 3: William Paley: Extract from Natural Theology
- 4: Anselm of Canterbury: Extract from Proslogion
- 5: G.W. Leibniz: Extract from Monadology
- 6: J.L. Mackie: Evil and omnipotence
- II Realism and Idealism
- Introduction
- 7: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- 8: George Berkeley: Selection from Three Dialogues
- 9: Immanuel Kant: Selection from Critique of Pure Reason
- 10: Selection from Matter and Sense
- 11: Michael Dummett: Realism
- III Being
- Introduction
- 12: Aristotle: Selection from Categories
- 13: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- 14: Robert Merrihew Adams: Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity
- 15: W.V. Quine: On what there is
- 16: Peter van Inwagen: Selection from Material Beings
- 17: Gareth Evans: Can there be vague objects?
- 18: David Lewis: Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood
- Part IV Universals and Particulars
- Introduction
- 19: Plato: Selections from Republic and Parmenides
- 20: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction
- 21: David Lewis: Selection from New work for a theory of universals
- 22: Donald C. Williams: On the Elements of Being: I
- 23: Sydney Shoemaker: Causality and Properties
- Part V Necessity
- Introduction
- 24: Saul Kripke: Selection from Naming and Necessity
- 25: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
- 26: Alvin Plantinga: Actualism and Possible Worlds
- 27: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility
- Part VI Causation
- Introduction
- 28: Aristotle: Selection from Metaphysics
- 29: David Hume: Selection from Enquiy Concerning Human Understanding
- 30: David Lewis: Causation
- 31: Donald Davidson: Causal Relations
- 32: D.H. Mellor: Selections from The Faces of Causation
- VII Time and Space
- Introduction
- 33: Aristotle: Selection from Physics
- 34: J.M.E McTaggart: Selection from The Nature of Existence
- 35: Arthur N. Prior: Changes in Events and Changes in Things
- 36: Paul Horwich: Selection from Asymmetries in Time
- 37: Selection from The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
- 38: J.J.C. Smart: The space-time world
- 39: David Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel
- Part VIII Identity
- Introduction
- 40: Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Time
- 41: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
- 42: Derek Parfit: Personal Identity
- 43: P.F. Snowdon: Persons, Animals, and Ourselves
- Part IX Mind and Body
- Introduction
- 44: Rene Descartes: Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy
- 45: G.W. Leibniz: Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances
- 46: Gilbert Harman: Selections from Thought
- 47: David Lewis: Psychophysical and theoretical identifications
- 48: Donald Davidson: Selection from Thinking Causes
- 49: Thomas Nagel: What is it like to be a bat?
- X Freedom and Determinism
- Introduction
- 50: David Hume: Selection from Treatise of Human Nature
- 51: Harry Frankfurt: Freedom of the will and the concept of a person
- 52: Peter van Inwagen: The incompatibility of freewill and determinism
- 53: Barry Loewer: Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will
- 54: Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the self
