The Routledge companion to metaphysics / edited by Robin Le Poidevin ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Le Poidevin, Robin, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

xxii, 609 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

General introduction : what is metaphysics? / Robin Le Poidevin

History of metaphysics

Introduction to part I : millennia of metaphysics / Peter Simons

Presocratic themes : being, not-being and mind / David Sedley

Plato : arguments for forms / Richard Patterson

Aristotle : form, matter and substance / Stephen Makin

Aristotle : time and change / Ursula Coope

Medieval metaphysics I : the problem of universals / Claude Panaccio

Medieval metaphysics II : things, non-things, God and time / John Marenbon

Descartes : the real distinction / Dugald Murdoch

Hobbes : matter, motion and cause / George MacDonald Ross

Spinoza : substance, attribute and mode / Richard Glauser

Locke : the primary and secondary quality distinction / Lisa Downing

Leibniz : mind-body causation and pre-established harmony / Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Berkeley : arguments for idealism / Tom Stoneham

Hume : necessary connections and distinct existences / Alexander Miller

Kant : the possibility of metaphysics / Lucy Allais

Hegel and Schopenhauer : reason and will / Rolf-Peter Horstmann

Anti-metaphysics I : Nietzsche / Maudemarie Clark

Bradley : the supra-relational absolute / W.J. Mander

Whitehead : process and cosmology / Peter Simons

Heidegger : the question of being / Herman Philipse

Anti-metaphysics II : verificationism and kindred views / Cheryl Misak

Metaphysics revivified / Avrum Stroll

Ontology : on what exists

Introduction to part II : being and related matters / Ross P. Cameron

To be / Chris Daly

Not to be / Graham Priest

Razor arguments / Peter Forrest

Substance / David Robb

Intrinsic and extrinsic properties / Ross P. Cameron

Universals : the contemporary debate / Fraser MacBride

Particulars / Herbert Hochberg

Composition, persistence and identity / Nikk Effingham

Relations / John Heil

Events, facts and states of affairs / Julian Dodd

Possible worlds and possibilia / John Divers

Mathematical entities / Peter Clark

Fictional objects / Richard Hanley

Vagueness / Elizabeth Barnes

Minor entities : surfaces, holes and shadows / Roberto Casati

Truthmakers and truthbearers / John Bigelow

Values / Kevin Mulligan

Metaphysics and science

Introduction to part III : the study of nature / Robin Le Poidevin

Space, absolute and relational / Tim Maudlin

Infinity and metaphysics / Daniel Nolan

The passage of time / Eric T. Olson

The direction of time / D.H. Mellor

Causation / Michael Tooley

Laws and dispositions / Stephen Mumford

Determinism and probability / Phillip Percival

Essences and natural kinds / Alexander Bird

Metaphysics and relativity / Katherine Hawley

Metaphysics and quantum physics / Peter J. Lewis

Supervenience, reductionism, and emergence / Howard Robinson

Biometaphysics / Barry Smith

Social entities / Amie L. Thomasson

The mental and the physical / Louise Anthony

The self / John Campbell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415396318

041539631X

9780415493963

041549396X

9780203879306

0203879309

OCLC:

263146843