A Companion to Metaphysics (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Kim, Jaegwon; Rosenkrantz, Gary S.; Sosa, Ernest

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Metaphysics 2nd Edition includes a section of detailed review essays from renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300. * Includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries * Features more than 30 all-new "A to Z" entries * Offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned metaphysicians * Provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for students and professionals alike

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444308532
• Artikelnr.: 37358548

Autorenporträt

The Editors Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and the books Supervenience and Mind (1993), Mind in a Physical World (1998), Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005), and Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edn. (2006). He is co-editor of Blackwell's Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edn. (2008). Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. With Jonathan Dancy he is also co-editor of another volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series: A Companion to Epistemology (1993); and, with Laurence BonJour, of Epistemic Justification (2003), a volume in the Blackwell Great Debates in Philosophy series. His other publications include Knowledge in Perspective (1991), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and Reflective Knowledge (2009). Gary S. Rosenkrantz is Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A practicing metaphysician for more than 30 years, Professor Rosenkrantz's published books include Haecceity: An Ontological Essay (1993), and three works co-authored with Joshua Hoffman: Substance Among Other Categories (1994), Substance: Its Nature and Existence (1996), and The Divine Attributes (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors vii
Introduction xiii
Part I Extended Essays 1
Part II Metaphysics From A to Z 95
Index 637

Rezensionen

"This is a resource no metaphysician in the Anglo-American tradition will want to do without. Summing Up: Essential." (CHOICE, October 2009)