Metaphysics : contemporary readings / edited by Michael J. Loux.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Loux, Michael J.

Series:

Routledge contemporary readings in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

xii, 555 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings" is 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's "Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, 2nd Edition.

Contents:

Part I Universals

The Problem of Universals 3

1 "The World of Universals" / Bertrand Russell 14

2 "Universals and Resemblances" / H. H. Price 20

3 "On What There Is" / W. V. Quine 42

4 "The Elements of Being" / D. C. Williams 57

5 "Universals as Attributes" / David Armstrong 65

Part II Particulars

The Ontological Structure of Concrete Particulars 95

6 "The Identity of Indiscernibles" / Max Black 104

7 "Bare Particulars" / Edwin B. Allaire 114

8 "Three Versions of the Bundle Theory" / James Van Cleve 121

9 "A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory" / Albert Casullo 134

Part III Possible Worlds

Modality and Possible Worlds 151

10 "Possible Worlds" / David Lewis 160

11 "Actualism and Possible Worlds" / Alvin Plantinga 168

12 "Counterparts or Double Lives?" / David Lewis 188

13 "Identity and Necessity" / Saul Kripke 218

Part IV Time

Time: The A-Theory and the B-Theory 251

14 "Time" / J. M. E. McTaggart 260

15 "Ostensible Temporality" / C. D. Broad 272

16 "Time and Eternity" / Richard Taylor 279

17 "The Notion of the Present" / A. N. Piror 289

18 "The Space

Time World" / J. J. C. Smart 294

19 "The Need for Tense" / D. H. Mellor 304

Part V Persistence Through Time

Endurantism and Perdurantism 321

20 "Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects" / Mark Heller 328

21 "Endurance and Indiscernibility" / Trenton Merricks 353

22 "Personal Identity" / Derek Parfit 374

23 "Survival and Identity" / David Lewis 395

24 "Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory" / Richard Swinburne 420

Part VI Realism and Anti-Realism

Realism and Anti-Realism 449

25 "Realism" / Michael Dummett 459

26 "Ontological Relativity" / W. V. Quine 479

27 "A Problem about Reference" / Hilary Putnam 496

28 "Objectivity" / Peter Van Inwagen 524.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415261082

0415261090

OCLC:

47650552