Peter van Inwagen

Metaphysics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to metaphysics and it presupposes no previous acquaintance with philosophy. Updates include extensive rewriting of the chapter on time, enhanced clarity throughout the text, updated notes and suggested reading throughout.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 5 ed
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 122mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781032409153
• ISBN-10: 1032409150
• Artikelnr.: 68476210

Autorenporträt

Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and research professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of An Essay on Free Will (1983), Material Beings (1990), Being: A Study in Ontology (2022), and seven other books. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Gifford Lecturer, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Fifth Edition 1. Introduction Part I: The Way the World is
2. Individuality 3. Externality 4. Temporality 5. Objectivity Part II: Why
the World is 6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument 7. Necessary
Being: The Cosmological Argument Part III: The Inhabitants of the World 8.
What Rational Beings Are There? 9. The Place of Rational beings in the
World: Design and Purpose 10. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and
Physicalism 11. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal
Identity 12. The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will 13.
Concluding Meditation Coda: Being