Donald C Williams

Elements and Patterns of Being

Essays in Metaphysics
Herausgeber: Fisher, A R J

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Produktbeschreibung

Donald C. Williams (1899-1983) was a key figure in the development of analytic philosophy. This book will be the definitive source for his highly original work, which did much to bring metaphysics back into fashion. It presents six classic papers and six previously unpublished, revealing his full philosophical vision for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780198810384
• ISBN-10: 0198810385
• Artikelnr.: 50906292

Autorenporträt

Donald Cary Williams (1899-1983) was professor of philosophy at UCLA from 1930 to 1939 and then at Harvard until his retirement in 1967. He was the author of The Ground of Induction (Harvard, 1947) and many essays, some of which were collected in Principles of Empirical Realism (C. C. Thomas, 1966). A. R. J. Fisher is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He received his PhD from Syracuse University in 2012. He specializes in Metaphysics and the History of Analytic Philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Duty of Philosophy (c.1965)
2: The Elements of Being (1953)
3: Universals and Existents (1960)
4: Universal Concepts and Particular Processes (1962)
5: How Reality is Reasonable (1974)
6: Necessary Facts (1963)
7: Dispensing with Existence (1962)
8: The Sea Fight Tomorrow (1951)
9: The Myth of Passage (1951)
10: The Nature of Time (1966)
11: The Shape of Time (1968)
12: The Bugbear of Fate (1974)