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Engagement and metaphysical dissatisfaction : modality and value / by Barry Stroud.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stroud, Barry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Causation.
- Necessity (Philosophy).
- Value.
- First philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 163 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen. We also believe that some things simply must be so, with no possibility of having been otherwise. Barry Stroud argues that some beliefs of each of these kinds are indispensable to our having any conception of a world at all.
- Contents:
- The metaphysical project
- Causation
- Necessity
- Value
- Indispensability
- Metaphysical dissatisfaction.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-997097-1
- 0-19-045417-2
- 1-283-03992-3
- 9786613039927
- 0-19-978113-3
- OCLC:
- 922970182
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