The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
by Editor: Richard M. Gale (University of Pittsburgh)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics | |
| Causation | |
| What Events Are | |
| Time, Temporality and Paradox, Richard MGale | |
| A Thomist Metaphysics | |
| The Concept of Ontological Catergory: a New Approach | |
| Universals and Predication | |
| Composition as a Fiction | |
| What Do We Refer To When We Say 'I'? | |
| Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of 'What Matters' | |
| Idealism | |
| An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism and Justifcatory Idealism | |
| Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: The Basic Argument of 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' | |
| Metaphysical Realism and Logical Nonrealism | |
| The Metaphysics of Possibilia | |
| The Actual and the Possible | |
| Index | |
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