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Metaphysics : the key concepts /
"Informative, accessible, and fun to read- this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other resource like it.'- Meghan Griffith, Davidson College, USA'Marvellous! This book provides...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Colección: | Routledge key guides.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF CONCEPTS; INTRODUCTION; METAPHYSICS: The Key Concepts; ABSTRACT VS CONCRETE; AGENT CAUSATION; ALEPH; ANALYSIS; ANALYTIC VS SYNTHETIC TRUTHS; ANCESTRAL RELATION; ANIMALISM; ANTI-CRITERIALISM; ANTI-REALISM; ARISTOTLE; ARMSTRONG, DAVID; A-THEORY; AUSTERE NOMINALISM; BACKWARDS CAUSATION; BEING; BERKELEY, GEORGE; BILKING ARGUMENT; BODILY CONTINUITY; BRADLEY'S REGRESS; BRAINS IN A VAT; B-THEORY; BUNDLE THEORY OF THE SELF OR PERSON; BUNDLE THEORY VS SUBSTANCE-ATTRIBUTE THEORY; CANBERRA PLAN; CARVING NATURE AT ITS JOINTS.
- Categorical and dispositional propertiescausal relata; causation by absence; chance; class; class nominalism; common sense; compatibilism; concept; conceptual analysis; conceptual scheme; conceptual vs logical truths; concrete; consequence argument; contingent truths; counterfactual conditional; counterfactual theory of causation; criterion of ontological commitment; determinables and determinates; determinism; diachronic identity; direction of time; dispositional properties; dretske-tooley-armstrong view of laws; empiricism; endurantism; essence; eternalism; event; exemplification; existence.
- Experimental philosophyextrinsic properties; facts; fictionalism; fission; flow of time; form and matter; four-dimensionalism; frankfurt's nefarious neurosurgeon; frankfurt-style cases; fusion, mereological; gedankenexperiment; general causal sentences; global realism; god's eye view; grandfather paradox; growing block theory; guidance control vs regulative control; gunk; haecceitism; hard determinism; holes; hume, david; humeanism; humean supervenience; idealism; identity; identity of indiscernibles; identity over time; illusion of free will; immanent realism about universals; improper part.
- Incompatibilismindeterminism; indexical; indiscernibility of identicals; infinity; instantiation; intrinsic vs extrinsic properties; inus conditions; kant, immanuel; kripke, saul; law of nature; leibniz's law; lewis, david; libertarianism; linguistic framework; linguistic turn; locke, john; logical truth; mctaggart, j. m. e.; meinongianism; memory theory; mereological fusion; mereology; metametaphysics; metaphysical realism; modality; modal realism; moorean facts; moral responsibility; moving spotlight theory of time; multiple occupancy thesis; natural kinds; natural law; natural necessity.
- Natural philosophynatural property; necessary a posteriori truths; necessity; necessity of origin thesis; negative facts; neuron diagram; neuroscience and free will; nihilism; nominalism; non-existent objects; numbers; ockham's razor; one-to-one relation; only x and y principle; ontological commitment; ontology; ostrich nominalism; overdetermination; overlap; paraphrase; part; participation; particulars; perdurantism; persistence; phase sortal; phenomenalism and idealism; platonic heaven; platonism; point particle; possibilia; possible worlds; possibility; postmodernism; pragmatism.