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Author: Michael Loux
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-27
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1134144873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Metaphysics' is aimed at students of metaphysics who have already completed an introductory philosophy course. This third edition provides a fresh look at the key topics in metaphysics and includes new chapters on time and causation.
Author: Tuomas E. Tahko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-12-08
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1139502697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAristotelian (or neo-Aristotelian) metaphysics is currently undergoing something of a renaissance. This volume brings together fourteen essays from leading philosophers who are sympathetic to this conception of metaphysics, which takes its cue from the idea that metaphysics is the first philosophy. The primary input from Aristotle is methodological, but many themes familiar from his metaphysics will be discussed, including ontological categories, the role and interpretation of the existential quantifier, essence, substance, natural kinds, powers, potential, and the development of life. The volume mounts a strong challenge to the type of ontological deflationism which has recently gained a strong foothold in analytic metaphysics. It will be a useful resource for scholars and advanced students who are interested in the foundations and development of philosophy.
Author: A. W. Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 691
ISBN-13: 0521616557
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes and provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters.
Author: Michael Jubien
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1997-12-08
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781557868589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach volume in this series provides a clear, comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the main philosophical topics of contemporary debate.
Author: David S. Oderberg
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1999-07-09
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780631213895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKForm and Matter is a collection of six papers by leading philosophers on topics in contemporary metaphysics looked at from an Aristotelian perspective. Topics covered include substance, material constitution, the metaphysics of mind, the nature of mixture,and the analysis of what it is to be a living thing.
Author: Michael J. Loux
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780415261098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphysics: Contemporary Readingsis a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in Metaphysics. Chapter sections cover: Universals; Particulars; Modality and Possible Worlds; Causation; Time; and Realism and Anti-Realism. The readings are designed to complement Michael Loux'sMetaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, 2nd Edition.
Author: Mark Sinclair
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0198786433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history. The ultimate purpose of this historical approach is to contextualise and even to offer some alternatives to dominant positions within the contemporary philosophy of modality. Hence the volume contains not only new scholarship on the early-modern doctrines of Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Leibniz, Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant, but also work relating to less familiar nineteenth-century thinkers such as Alexius Meinong and Jan Lukasiewicz, together with essays on celebrated nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers such as G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger and Bertrand Russell, whose modal doctrines have not previously garnered the attention they deserve. The volume thus covers a variety of traditions, and its historical range extends to the end of the twentieth century, addressing the legacy of W. V. Quine's critique of modality within recent analytic philosophy.
Author: Steven D. Hales
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a comprehensive collection of readings with an ontological emphasis. Topics include abstracta - properties, numbers, and propositions, secondary qualities, and concreta - events.
Author: Theodore Sider
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1118712323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteenleading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of themost cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics. Explores the fundamental questions in contemporary metaphysicsin a series of eighteen original essays - 16 of which are newlycommissioned for this volume Features an introductory essay by the editors on the nature ofmetaphysics to prepare the reader for ongoing discussions Offers readers the unique opportunity to observe leadingphilosophers engage in head-to-head debate on cutting-edgemetaphysical topics Provides valuable insights into the flourishing field ofcontemporary metaphysics
Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 019980897X
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