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The elements and patterns of being : essays in metaphysics / Donald C. Williams ; edited by A.R.J. Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Donald Cary, 1899-1983, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Ontology.
- Time--Philosophy.
- Time.
- First philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) : illustrations, portrait
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Essays in metaphysics
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Donald C. Williams (1899-1983) was a key figure in the development of analytic philosophy. This work will be the definitive source for his highly original work, which did much to bring metaphysics back into fashion. It presents six classic papers and six previously unpublished, revealing his full philosophical vision for the first time.
- Contents:
- The duty of philosophy (c. 1965)
- The elements of being (1953)
- Universals and existents (1960)
- Universal concepts and particular processes (1962)
- How reality is reasonable (1974)
- Necessary facts (1963)
- Dispensing with existence (1962)
- The sea fight tomorrow (1951)
- The myth of passage (1951)
- The nature of time (1966)
- The shape of time (1968)
- The bugbear of fate (1974).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 22, 2018).
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-253836-5
- 0-19-185293-7
- 0-19-253835-7
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