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Metaphysics : a guide and anthology

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  • Author: Crane, Tim
    Contributor: Farkas, Katalin
    Date:
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    2013
    Summary:

    This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, setting the extracts in context and guiding the reader through them.

    Contents:
    • Part I. God
    • Why Anything? Why This? / Derek Parfit
    • The Five Ways / Thomas Aquinas
    • Selection from Natural Theology / William Paley
    • Selection from Proslogion / Anselm of Canterbury
    • Selection from Monadology / G.W. Leibniz
    • Evil and Omnipotence / J.L. Mackie
    • Part II. Realism and Idealism
    • Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke
    • Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous / George Berkeley
    • Selection from Critique of Pure Reason / Immanuel Kant
    • Selection from Matter and Sense / Howard Robinson
    • Realism / Michael Dummett
    • Part III. Being
    • Selection from Categories / Aristotle
    • Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke
    • Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity / Robert M. Adams
    • On What There Is / W.V. Quine
    • Selection from Material Beings / Peter van Inwagen
    • Can There Be Vague Objects? / Gareth Evans
    • Vague Identity : Evans Misunderstood / David Lewis
    • Part IV. Universals and Particulars
    • Selections from Parmenides and Republic / Plato
    • Selection from Universals : An Opinionated Introduction / D.M. Armstrong
    • Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals / David Lewis
    • On the Elements of Being : I / Donald C. Williams
    • Causality and Properties / Sydney Shoemaker
    • Part V. Necessity
    • Selection from Naming and Necessity / Saul Kripke
    • Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds / David Lewis
    • Actualism and Possible Worlds / Alvin Plantinga
    • Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility / D.M. Armstrong
    • Part VI. Causation
    • Selection from Metaphysics / Aristotle
    • Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume
    • Causation / David Lewis
    • Causal Relations / Donald Davidson
    • Selections from The Facts of Causation / D.H. Mellor
    • Part VII. Time and Space
    • Selection from Physics / Aristotle
    • Selection from The Nature of Existence / J.M.E. McTaggart
    • Changes in Events and Changes in Things / Arthur N. Prior
    • Selection from Asymmetries in Time / Paul Horwich
    • Selection from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
    • The Space-Time world / J.J.C. Smart
    • The Paradoxes of Time Travel / David Lewis
    • Part VIII. Identity
    • Identity through Time / Roderick M
    • Chisholm
    • Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds / David Lewis
    • Personal Identity / Derek Parfit
    • Persons, Animals, and Ourselves / P.F. Snowdon
    • Part IX. Mind and Body
    • Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy / Rene Descartes
    • Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances / G.W. Leibniz
    • Selections from Thought / Gilbert Harman
    • Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications / David Lewis
    • Selection from Thinking Causes / Donald Davidson
    • What Is It Like to Be a Bat? / Thomas Nagel
    • Part X. Freedom and Determinism
    • Selection from Treatise of Human Nature / David Hume
    • Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person / Harry Frankfurt
    • The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism / Peter van Inwagen
    • Selection from Freedom from Physics : Quantum Mechanics and Free Will / Barry Loewer
    • Human Freedom and the Self / Roderick M. Chisholm.
    Genre:
    Philosophy, Instructional and educational works
    Subject(s): Metaphysics
    Original Publisher: Vancouver, B.C., Crane Library
    Language(s): English