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Metaphysics

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ISBN-10: 0415962382

ISBN-13: 9780415962384

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Michael Loux

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Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in Metaphysics. Chapters appear under the headings: Universals Particulars Modality and Possible Worlds Causation Time Persistence Realism and Anti-Realism Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editor which guides students gently into each topic. Articles by the following leading philosophers are included: Allaire, Anscombe, Armstrong, Black, Broad, Casullo, Dummett, Ewing, Heller, Hume, Kripke, Lewis, Mackie, McTaggart, Mellor, Merricks , Parfit, Plantinga, Price, Prior, Putnam, Quine, Russell, Smart, Swinburne, Taylor , Van Cleve, van…    
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Book details

List price: $48.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 664
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgements
Universals: The Problem of Universals
"The World of Universals"
"Universals and Resemblances"
"On What There Is"
"The Elements of Being"
"Universals as Attributes"
Particulars: The Ontological Structure of Concrete Particulars
"The Identity of Indiscernibles"
"Bare Particulars"
"Three Versions of the Bundle Theory"
"A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory"
Possible Worlds: Modality and Possible Worlds
"Possible Worlds"
"Actualism and Possible Worlds"
"Counterparts or Double Lives?"
"Identity and Necessity"
Causation: Cause and Effect
Selections from Book I of A Treatise of Human Nature
"Cause"
"Causality and Determination"
"Causes and Conditions"
"Causation"
Time: Time: The A-Theory and the B-Theory
"Time"
"Ostensible Temporality"
"Time and Eternity"
"The Notion of the Present"
"The Space-Time World"
"The Need for Tense"
Persistence Through Time: Endurantism and Perdurantism
"Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects"
"Endurance and Indiscernibility"
"Personal Identity"
"Survival and Identity"
"Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory"
Realism and Anti-Realism: Realism and Anti-Realism
"Realism"
"Ontological Relativity"
"A Problem about Reference"
"Objectivity"
Index