The Blackwell guide to metaphysics / edited by Richard M. Gale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gale, Richard M., 1932-

Series:

Blackwell philosophy guides ; v.8.

Blackwell philosophy guides ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers that demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality, ontology, personal identity, idealism, and realism.

Contents:

The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics; 2 Causation; 3 What Events Are; 4 Time, Temporality, and Paradox; 5 A Thomist Metaphysics; 6 The Concept of Ontological Category: A New Approach; 7 Universals and Predication; 8 Composition as a Fiction; 9 What Do We Refer to When We Say "I"?; 10 Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of "What Matters"; 11 Idealism; 12 An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism and Justi.catory Idealism

13 Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: The Basic Argument of "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"14 Metaphysical Realism and Logical Nonrealism; 15 The Metaphysics of Possibilia; 16 The Actual and the Possible; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611312602

9781405164757

1405164751

9781782687405

1782687408

9781281312600

1281312606

9780470702819

0470702818

9780470998984

0470998989

9780470998977

0470998970

OCLC:

184983743