D. H. Mellor

Matters of Metaphysics

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Produktbeschreibung

This selection of D. H. Mellor's work demonstrates the wide ranging originality of his work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521044479
• ISBN-10: 0521044472
• Artikelnr.: 23107766

Autorenporträt

D. H. Mellor is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Part I. Minds: 1. Analytic philosophy and the self
2. I and now (1989)
3. Consciousness and degrees of belief (1980)
4. How much of the mind is a computer? (1988)
5. (with Tim Crane) There is no question of physicalism (1990)
Part II. Properties and Laws: 6. In defence of dispositions (1974)
7. Natural kinds (1977)
8. Necessities and universals in natural laws (1980)
9. Laws, chances and properties (1990)
10. Properties and predicates
Part III. Causation: 11. McTaggart, fixity and coming true (1981)
12. The singularly affecting facts of causation (1987)
13. On raising the chances of effects (1988)
Part IV. Prediction and Decision: 14. Chance and degrees of belief (1982)
15. The warrant of induction (1988)
16. Objective decision making (1983)
References.