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Metaphysics The Fundamentals.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Koons, Robert C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Metaphysics: The Fundamentals -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 What Is Metaphysics? -- 1.1 The Subject of Metaphysics -- 1.2 The Methods of Metaphysics -- 1.3 The Waxing and Waning of Metaphysics -- 1.4 Modern Challenges to Metaphysics -- 1.5 The Renaissance of Metaphysics in the Later "Analytic" Era -- 1.6 Metaphysics as First Philosophy -- 1.7 Overview of the Book -- Chapter 2 Truthmakers -- 2.1 Propositions -- 2.2 Classical Truthmaker Theory -- 2.2.1 Three Arguments for Truthmakers -- 2.2.2 Two Varieties of Classical Truthmaker Theory -- 2.3 Deflationism 
505 8 |a 2.4 Truth Supervenes on Being -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Causation and Powers -- 3.1 Do Causes Exist? -- 3.1.1 Objections to Causes -- 3.1.2 Arguments for Causes -- 3.2 Causal Dispositions and Conditionals -- 3.3 Four Metaphysical Theories -- 3.3.1 Against Hypotheticalism -- 3.3.2 Against Nomism -- 3.4 Neo-Humeism -- 3.4.1 Advantages of Neo-Humeism -- 3.4.2 Objections to Neo-Humeism -- 3.5 Powerism -- 3.5.1 Powers and Properties -- 3.5.2 Nothing but Powers? -- 3.5.3 Advantages of Powerism -- 3.5.4 Objections to Powerism -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 4 Properties 
505 8 |a 4.1 The Theoretical Role of Properties -- 4.2 Realism -- 4.3 Reductive Nominalism -- 4.3.1 Class Nominalism -- 4.3.2 Resemblance Nominalism -- 4.4 Trope Theory -- 4.4.1 Two Versions of Trope Theory -- 4.4.2 A Dilemma for Modular Trope Theory -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Particulars -- 5.1 Facts -- 5.2 Substances -- 5.2.1 Relational Ontology -- 5.2.2 Constituent Ontology -- 5.3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Composition -- 6.1 The Special Composition Question -- 6.2 Ontological Free Lunch? -- 6.2.1 Composition as Identity -- 6.2.2 Free Lunch Based on Theories of Property Instantiation 
505 8 |a 6.2.3 Free Lunch Based on Atomism -- 6.3 Atomism and Monism -- 6.4 Emergence and Compositional Pluralism -- 6.5 Possible Evidence for Compositional Emergence -- 6.5.1 Prospects for the Justification of Emergence -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Modality -- 7.1 Possible Worlds: Concretism versus Abstractionism -- 7.1.1 Concretism -- 7.1.2 Abstractionism -- 7.2 Modality De Re: Transworld Identity versus Counterpart Theory -- 7.2.1 Transworld Identity -- 7.2.2 Counterpart Theory -- Notes -- Chapter 8 The Passage of Time -- 8.1 The A Theory and the B Theory -- 8.2 Varieties of A Theories 
505 8 |a 8.3 Arguments for the B Theory -- 8.3.1 A Simpler Account of the Semantics of Tense -- 8.3.2 The Special Theory of Relativity -- 8.3.3 If Time Passes, How Fast Does It Move? -- 8.4 Arguments for the A Theory -- 8.4.1 The Reality of Change -- 8.4.2 Recalcitrant Linguistic Data -- 8.4.3 Our Experience of the Flow of Time -- 8.4.4 The Metaphysical Impossibility of Time Travel -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Continuity and Persistence -- 9.1 Discrete and Continuous Causation -- 9.2 Instants versus Intervals: Which Are Fundamental? 
500 |a 9.2.1 Are Fundamental Processes Compatible with the A Theory? 
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