The Blackwell Guide to MetaphysicsRichard M. Gale The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers that demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality, ontology, personal identity, idealism, and realism. |
Contents
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2 Causation | 19 |
3 What Events Are | 43 |
4 Time Temporality and Paradox | 66 |
5 A Thomist Metaphysics | 87 |
6 The Concept of Ontological Category A New Approach | 110 |
7 Universals and Predication | 131 |
8 Composition as a Fiction | 151 |
10 Personal Identity The NonBranching Form of What Matters | 190 |
11 Idealism | 219 |
12 An Idealistic Realism Presuppositional Realism and Justicatory Idealism | 242 |
13 Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes The Basic Argument of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind | 263 |
14 Metaphysical Realism and Logical Nonrealism | 282 |
15 The Metaphysics of Possibilia | 303 |
16 The Actual and the Possible | 317 |
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abstract Abstract Particulars according actual world agent alethic modal answer Aquinas argument Aristotelian Aristotle atoms bare particular believe called Cambridge Cartesian causal cause claim cognition commitment composition concept concrete Concretist Descartes distinct entities essay example exist experience explain expressions fact fundamental human Hume Hume’s idea idealism imagine inference interaction Kant kind language Leibniz Lewis Lewis’s Locke’s logical material matter means mereological sum metaphysical mind modal disanalogies Modal Realism motion nature Newton noninferential nonrealism objects observation occur one’s ontological Oxford P-theory Parfit particular personal identity Peter van Inwagen philosophers physical Platonic position possible worlds predicate present principle pristates problem properties propositions psychological quantifiers question Quine reality reason refer relations relevant scientific Sellars semantics sense sentence sort sortal space spatial statement structure substance suppose temporal theory things thomist thought tion transitivity of identity trope true truth University Press word