Metaphysics

Contemporary Readings: 2nd Edition
Herausgeber: Loux, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in Metaphysics. Chapters appear under the headings: Universals Particulars Modality and Possible Worlds Causation Time Persistence Realism and Anti-Realism Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editor which guides students gently into each topic. Articles by the following leading philosophers are included: Allaire, Anscombe, Armstrong, Black, Broad, Casullo, Dummett, Ewing, Heller, Hume, Kripke, Lewis, Mackie, McTaggart, Mellor, Merricks, Parfit, Plantinga, Price, Prior, Putnam, Quine, Russell, Smart, Swinburne, Taylor, Van Cleve, van Inwagen, Williams Featuring a new section on causation, this new edition is highly accessible and provides a broad-ranging exploration of the subject. Ideal for any philosophy student, this reader will prove essential reading for any metaphysics course. The sections and selections of readings have been updated to complement Michael Loux 's textbook Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, third edition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 660
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780415962377
• ISBN-10: 0415962374
• Artikelnr.: 25006969

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Loux is the George N. Schuster Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University, Indiana. He is the author of Substance and Attribute (1978) and Primary Ousia (1991), as well Metaphysics: a Contemporary Introduction, the third edition of which is also published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Universals
Bertrand Russell, "the World of Universals"
H.H. Price, "Universals and Resemblances"
W.V. Quine "On What There Is"
D.C. Williams "The Elements of Being"
David Armstrong "Universals as Attributes"
Particulars
Max Black "The Identity of Indiscernibles"
Edwin B. Allaire "Bare Particulars"
James Van Cleve "Three Versions of the Bundle Theory"
Albert Casullo, "A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory"
Modality and Possible Worlds
David Lewis "Possible Worlds"
Alvin Plantinga "Actualism and Possible Worlds"
David Lewis "Counterparts or Double Lives?"
Saul Kripke "Identity and Necessity"
Causation
David Hume, "Treatise or Inquiry on Causation"
A.C.Ewing, "Fundamental Questions of Philosophy: Causation"
Elizabeth Anscombe, "Causation and Determination"
J.L.Mackie "Causes and Conditions"
David Lewis, "Causation"
Time
J.M.E McTaggart, "Time
C.D Broad, "Ostensible Temporality"
Richard Taylor, "Time and Eternity"
A.N. Prior, "The Notion of the Present"
J.J.C. Smart, "The Space-Time World"
D.H. Mellor, "The Need for Tense"
Persistence
Mark Heller, "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects"
Trenton Merricks, "Endurance and Indiscernibility"
Derek Parfit, "Personal Identity"
David Lewis, "Survival and Identity"
Richard Swinburne, "Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory"
Realism and Anti-Realism
Michael Dummett, "Realism"
W.V. Quine, "Ontological Relativity"
Hilary Putnam, "A Problem About Reference"
Peter Van Inwagen, "Objectivity"