
Beginning Metaphysics
An Introductory Text with Readings
Wiley (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 10. September 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-1-55786-729-2 (ISBN)
Description
This flexible textbook is both an introduction and a reader in metaphysics combining original discussion with selections from primary sources.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
879 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55786-729-2 (9781557867292)
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09/1998
Blackwell Publishers
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Persons
Heimir Geirsson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He is the co-editor, with Michael Losonsky, of Readings in Language and Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and has published on philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and epistemology in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, and Journal of Philosophical Research. Michael Losonsky is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is the co-editor, with Heimir Geirsson, of Readings in Language and Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1996). He has published on contemporary metaphysics in American Philosophical Quarterly, Minds and Machines, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy, amongst others. He has also published on metaphysics in the history of modern philosophy in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Pragmatics and Cognition, among others.
Editor
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University
Content
List of Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments viii
1 What is Metaphysics? 1
2 Metaphysics and Political Philosophy 11
3 Values and Reality 82
4 God and Evil 183
5 Causation and Responsibility 237
6 Mind and Morality 283
7 Freedom and Responsibility 358
8 Against Metaphysics 435
Glossary 485
Index 490
Acknowledgments viii
1 What is Metaphysics? 1
2 Metaphysics and Political Philosophy 11
3 Values and Reality 82
4 God and Evil 183
5 Causation and Responsibility 237
6 Mind and Morality 283
7 Freedom and Responsibility 358
8 Against Metaphysics 435
Glossary 485
Index 490