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.
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.
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
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
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