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Reality : fundamental topics in metaphysics /

"In Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, Peter Loptson argues for a conception of metaphysics as the most general or comprehensive method of inquiry. Working from a broadly analytic and naturalist perspective, he confronts positions that claim metaphysics to be impossible, as advanced in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loptson, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, [2010], ©2009
Edición:2nd edition.
Colección:Philosophica.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. I. What Is Metaphysics?
  • Ch. II. Metaphysics and its Critics: Realism, Antirealism, and the Possibility of Metaphysics
  • Ch. III. Metaphysical Systems
  • Ch. IV. Categories and First Principles
  • Ch. V. Existence
  • Ch. VI. Essence and Possible Worlds
  • Ch. VII. Substance
  • Ch. VIII. Universals
  • Ch. IX. Space
  • Ch. X. Time
  • Ch. XI. Causality
  • Ch. XII. Purpose
  • Ch. XIII. Persons, Personal Identity, and Metaphysical Luck
  • Ch. XIV. Mind
  • Ch. XV. God
  • Ch. XVI. Freedom and Determinism
  • Ch. XVII. Immortality.