Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 632 g
Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 632 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-875253-0
Verlag: OUP UK
A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main parts, each relatively self-contained, focusing in turn on the following major themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. In an introductory chapter, the conception of metaphysics underlying the book is explained and defended against the many and varied opponents of metaphysics those students are likely to encounter. While the book makes reference when necessary to the history of metaphysics, its emphasis is on contemporary views and issues. The author's approach is not narrowly partisan, but avoids bland neutrality in matters of controversy.
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- 1: Introduction: The nature of metaphysics
- Part I
- 2: Identity over time and change of composition
- 3: Qualitative change and the doctrine of temporal parts
- 4: Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidence
- Part II
- 5: Necessity and identity
- 6: Essentialism
- 7: Possible worlds
- Part III
- 8: Conterfactual conditionals
- 9: Causes and conditions
- 10: Conterfactuals and event causation
- Part IV
- 11: Event causation and agent causation
- 12: Actions and Events
- 13: Events, things, and space-time
- Part V
- 14: Absolutism versus relationalism
- 15: Incongruent conterparts and the nature of space
- 16: The paradoxes of motion and the possibility of change
- 17: Tense and the reality of time
- 18: Causation and the direction of time
- Part VI
- 19: Realism versus nominalism
- 20: The abstract and the concrete
