A Survey of Metaphysics

A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics in the subject likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The emphasis is on contemporary views and issues rather than on the history of metaphysics.

This text provides an overview of modern metaphysics. The conception underlying the book is the fairly traditional one that metaphysics deals with the questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole.

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E.J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at University of Durham



Klappentext
A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, A Survey of Metaphysics covers all of the most important topics in the field. It adopts the fairly traditional conception of metaphysics as a subject that deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main sections that address the following themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. It focuses on contemporary views and issues throughout, rather than on the history of metaphysics.


Inhalt
1: Introduction: The nature of metaphysics
Part I
2: Identity over time and change of composition
3: Qualitative change and the doctrine of temporal parts
4: Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidence
Part II
5: Necessity and identity
6: Essentialism
7: Possible worlds
Part III
8: Conterfactual conditionals
9: Causes and conditions
10: Conterfactuals and event causation
Part IV
11: Event causation and agent causation
12: Actions and Events
13: Events, things, and space-time
Part V
14: Absolutism versus relationalism
15: Incongruent conterparts and the nature of space
16: The paradoxes of motion and the possibility of change
17: Tense and the reality of time
18: Causation and the direction of time
Part VI
19: Realism versus nominalism
20: The abstract and the concrete

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