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Metaphysics and Epistemology A Guided Anthology.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2013.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Metaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology
- Copyright
- Contents
- Source Acknowledgments
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Philosophical Image
- 1 Life and the Search for Philosophical Knowledge
- Book V
- Book VII
- 2 Philosophical Questioning
- The Value of Philosophy
- 3 Philosophy and Fundamental Images
- I. The Philosophical Quest
- II. The Manifest Image
- III. Classical Philosophy and the Manifest Image
- IV. The Scientific Image
- V. The Clash of the Images
- VII. Putting Man into the Scientific Image
- 4 Philosophy as the Analyzing of Key Concepts
- Analytical Philosophy
- Note
- 5 Philosophy as Explaining Underlying Possibilities
- Coercive Philosophy
- Philosophical Explanations
- Explanation versus Proof
- Philosophical Pluralism
- Part II Metaphysics Philosophical Images of Being
- How Is the World at all Physical?
- 6 How Real Are Physical Objects?
- Appearance and Reality
- 7 Are Physical Objects Never Quite as They Appear To Be?
- 8 Are Physical Objects Really Only Objects of Thought?
- Note
- 9 Is Even the Mind Physical?
- The Concept of a Mental State
- The Problem of the Secondary Qualities
- Note
- 10 Is the Physical World All There Is?
- I. The Knowledge Argument for Qualia
- II. The Modal Argument
- III. The "What is it like to be" Argument
- IV. The Bogey of Epiphenomenalism
- Notes
- How Does the World Function?
- 11 Is Causation Only a Kind of Regularity?
- Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion
- Note
- 12 Is Causation Something Singular and Unanalyzable?
- Notes
- How Do Things Ever HaveQualities?
- 13 How Can Individual Things Have Repeatable Qualities?
- 14 How Can Individual Things Not Have Repeatable Qualities?
- I. Nominalism versus Realism
- II. Varieties of Nominalism
- III. Can Predicates Determine Properties?
- IV. Predicate Nominalism and Two Infinite Regresses
- V. Predicates and Possible Predicates
- VI. Predicate Nominalism and Causality
- Note
- References
- How Are There Any Truths?
- 15 Do Facts Make True Whatever Is True?
- 16 Are There Social Facts?
- Social and Institutional Reality
- Observer-Dependency and the Building Blocks of Social Reality
- A Simple Model of the Construction of Institutional Reality
- The Example of Money
- How Institutional Reality Can Be So Powerful
- 17 Is There Only Personally Decided Truth?
- How Is There a World At All?
- 18 Has the World Been Designed by God?
- 19 Is God's Existence Knowable Purely Conceptually?
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXII
- A Reply to the Foregoing by a Certain Writer On Behalf of the Fool
- A Reply to the Foregoing by the Authorof the Book in Question
- 20 Has This World Been Actualized by God from Among All Possible Worlds?
- 21 Does This World Exist Because It Has Value Independently of God?
- The Riddle of Existence