Survey of Metaphysics

Name: Survey of Metaphysics
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ISBN: 9780198752530

ISBN-10: 0198752539

ISBN-13: 9780198752530

Edition: 2002

Authors: E. J. Lowe

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A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, A Survey of Metaphysics covers all of the most important topics in the field. It adopts the fairly traditional conception of metaphysics as a subject that deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main sections that address the following themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. It focuses on contemporary views and issues throughout, rather than on the history of metaphysics.

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List price: $99.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




Introduction: The Nature of Metaphysics



Identity and Change



Identity Over Time and Change of Composition



Qualitative Change and the Doctrine of Temporal Parts



Substantial Change and Spatiotemporal Coincidence



Necessity, Essence, and Possible Worlds



Necessity and Identity



Essentialism



Possible Worlds



Causation and Conditionals



Counterfactual Conditionals



Causes and Conditions



Counterfactuals and Event Causation



Agents, Actions, and Events



Event Causation and Agent Causation



Actions and Events



Events, Things, and Space-Time



Space and Time



Absolutism Versus Relationalism



Incongruent Counterparts and the Nature of Space



The Paradoxes of Motion and the Possibility of Change



Tense and the Reality of Time



Causation and the Direction of Time



Universals and Particulars



Realism Versus Nominalism



The Abstract and the Concrete


Bibliography


Index