The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
Published on 8. May 2008
360 pages
978-0-470-99897-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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"If you want to find out what's going on at the leading edge ofcurrent metaphysics, there is no better place to look than thisvolume of new essays by some of the most original and productiveminds now working in this field. The topics they discuss range farand wide, encompassing many central issues of metaphysics such ascausation, time, the self, events, ontological categories, and therelation between physics and metaphysics. This book is not only a'guide' to metaphysics but also includes substantial newcontributions to the field." Jaegwon Kim, Brown UniversityMore details
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Richard M. Gale is Professor of Philosophy at theUniversity of Pittsburgh. He is the author of On the Nature andExistence of God (1991) and The Divided Self of WilliamJames (1999).
Content
List of Contributors.
Preface.
1. Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics:Lawrence Sklar.
2. Causation: Wesley Salmon.
3. What Events Are: Jonathan Bennett.
4. Time, Temporality and Paradox, Richard M. Gale.
5. A Thomist Metaphysics: John Haldane.
6. The Concept of Ontological Catergory: a New Approach: LorenzPuntel.
7. Universals and Predication: Bruce Aune.
8. Composition as a Fiction: Gideon Rosen and Cian Dorr.
9. What Do We Refer To When We Say 'I'? Peter van Inwagen.
10. Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of 'What Matters':Jennifer E. Whiting.
11. Idealism: T.L.S. Sprigge.
12. An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism andJustifcatory Idealism: Nichlas Rescher.
13. Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: The BasicArgument of 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind': RobertBrandom.
14. Metaphysical Realism and Logical Nonrealism: PanayotButchvarov.
15. The Metaphysics of Possibilia: William Lycan.
16. The Actual and the Possible: Alexander Pruss.
Index.
