E. J. Lowe (, Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham)

A Survey of Metaphysics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics in the subject likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The emphasis is on contemporary views and issues rather than on the history of metaphysics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9780198752530
• ISBN-10: 0198752539
• Artikelnr.: 14981523

Autorenporträt

E.J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at University of Durham

Inhaltsangabe

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