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The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics.

The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers that demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality, ontology, personal identity, idealism,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gale, Richard M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Series:Blackwell philosophy guides.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics; 2 Causation; 3 What Events Are; 4 Time, Temporality, and Paradox; 5 A Thomist Metaphysics; 6 The Concept of Ontological Category: A New Approach; 7 Universals and Predication; 8 Composition as a Fiction; 9 What Do We Refer to When We Say "I"?; 10 Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of "What Matters"; 11 Idealism; 12 An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism and Justi.catory Idealism.