In this fully revised and updated version of the highly successful first edition, Michael J. Loux provides a fresh look at the central topics in metaphysics rendering this essential reading for anyone interested in metaphysics. Wherever possible, the author relates contemporary views to their classical sources in the history of philosophy.Some of the topics addressed include: the problem of universals; the nature of abstract entities; the problem of individuation; the nature of modality; identity through time; the nature of time and a new chapter on the realism/antirealism debate.
In this fully revised and updated version of the highly successful first edition, Michael J. Loux provides a fresh look at the central topics in metaphysics rendering this essential reading for anyone interested in metaphysics. Wherever possible, the author relates contemporary views to their classical sources in the history of philosophy.Some of the topics addressed include: the problem of universals; the nature of abstract entities; the problem of individuation; the nature of modality; identity through time; the nature of time and a new chapter on the realism/antirealism debate.
Michael J. Loux is the George Schuster Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, Indiana. He is author of the forthcoming Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, designed to accompany this text-book and also published by Routledge. His book Substance and Attribute (1978) is one of the major metaphysics books of recent years.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1 The problem of universals I Chapter 2 The problem of universals II Chapter 3 Concrete Part iculars I Chapter 4 Propositions and their neighbors Chapter 5 The necessary and the possible Chapter 6 Concrete Part iculars II Chapter 7 The challenge of anti-Realism
Introduction Chapter 1 The problem of universals I Chapter 2 The problem of universals II Chapter 3 Concrete Part iculars I Chapter 4 Propositions and their neighbors Chapter 5 The necessary and the possible Chapter 6 Concrete Part iculars II Chapter 7 The challenge of anti-Realism
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