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The continuum companion to metaphysics / edited by Neil A. Manson, Robert W. Barnard.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Continuum companions.
- Continuum Companions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2012.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics offers the definitive guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy. The book covers all the fundamental questions asked in metaphysics - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Eleven specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts discuss research problems and methods in metaphysics, reveal where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, indicate exciting new directions the field is taking. The Companion explores issues pertaining to modality, universals and abstract objects, naturalism and physicalism, mind, material constitution, endurantism and perdurantism, personal identity, personal identity, free will, and God. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including an A to Z index of key terms and concepts, a detailed list of research resources and a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential reference tool for anyone working in contemporary metaphysics.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Research Problems and Methods
- Modality
- Universals and Abstract Objects
- Naturalism and Physicalism
- Mind
- Material Constitution
- Endurantism and Perdurantism
- Personal Identity
- Free Will
- God
- New Directions in Metaphysics
- 1 Research Problems and Methods
- Methodology in Metaphysics: A Very Brief History
- The New Metaphysics
- New Challenges for Serious Metaphysics
- Conclusion
- 2 Modality
- The Problem of Modality
- Worlds as a Solution
- De Re Modality
- 3 Universals and Abstract Objects
- What is a Universal?
- What is an Abstract Object?
- Some Clarifications Regarding Terminology
- Universals, Mathematical Objects, and Language
- Platonism vs Nominalism
- Connecting Platonisms: Logicism
- 4 Naturalism and Physicalism
- Two Influential "Ism"s
- Interpreting "Naturalism"
- Formulating Physicalism
- Support for Naturalism and/or Physicalism
- 5 Mind
- Preliminary Census
- The Live Options
- Score Keeping
- The State of Play
- 6 Material Constitution
- The Orthodox View: Coincident Objects
- Dominant Kinds
- Nihilism
- Revising the Logic of Identity
- Future Research
- 7 Endurantism and Perdurantism
- Populationism
- Dimensionalism
- Occupationalism
- 8 Personal Identity
- Neo-Lockean Theories
- Animalism
- Constitution Theories
- Persons as Spatial Parts of Animals
- Needed Research
- 9 Free Will
- Do We Have Free Will? Preliminaries to Approaching the Question
- General Positions with Respect to the Nature of Free Will
- Positive Answers to the Existence Question
- Negative Answers to the Existence Question
- 10 God
- Conceptions of God
- Schema A (The Doxastic Possibility that God Exists).
- Schema B (Causal Order and the Cosmological Argument)
- Schema B (Fine-Tuning and the Argument for Design)
- Coda
- 11 New Directions in Metaphysics
- Quine's Method for Metaphysics
- Deflationary Metaphysics
- Experimental Metaphysics
- A Modest Proposal
- Annotated Bibliography
- Research Guide
- A-Z Index of Key Terms and Concepts
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4411-3022-5
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