| Description |
xx, 770 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Each Part opens with an Introduction and ends with Study Questions and Further Reading. -- List of Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I. God -- 1. Why Anything? Why This?, Derek Parfit -- 2. The Five Ways, Thomas Aquinas -- 3. Selection from Natural Theology, William Paley -- 4. Selection from Proslogion, Anselm of Canterbury -- 5. Selection from Monadology, G.W. Leibniz -- 6. Evil and Omnipotence, J.L. Mackie -- Part II. Realism and Idealism -- 7. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke -- 8. Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley -- 9. Selection from Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant -- 10. Selection from Matter and Sense, Howard Robinson -- 11. Realism, Michael Dummett -- Part III. Being -- 12. Selection from Categories, Aristotle -- 13. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke -- 14. Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity, Robert M. Adams -- 15. On What There Is, W.V. Quine -- 16. Selection from Material Beings, Peter van Inwagen -- 17. Can There Be Vague Objects?, Gareth Evans -- 18. Vague Identity: Evans Misunderstood, David Lewis -- Part IV. Universals and Particulars -- 19. Selections from Parmenides and Republic, Plato -- 20. Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction, D.M. Armstrong -- 21. Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals, David Lewis -- 22. On the Elements of Being: I, Donald C. Williams -- 23. Causality and Properties, Sydney Shoemaker -- Part V. Necessity -- 24. Selection from Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke -- 25. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis -- 26. Actualism and Possible Worlds, Alvin Plantinga -- 27. Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility, D.M. Armstrong -- Part VI. Causation -- 28. Selection from Metaphysics, Aristotle -- 29. Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume -- 30. Causation, David Lewis -- 31. Causal Relations, Donald Davidson -- 32. Selections from The Facts of Causation, D.H. Mellor -- Part VII. Time and Space -- 33. Selection from Physics, Aristotle -- 34. Selection from The Nature of Existence, J.M.E McTaggart -- 35. Changes in Events and Changes in Things, Arthur N. Prior -- 36. Selection from Asymmetries in Time, Paul Horwich -- 37. Selection from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence -- 38. The Space-Time world, J.J.C. Smart -- 39. The Paradoxes of Time Travel, David Lewis -- Part VIII. Identity -- 40. Identity through Time, Roderick M. Chisholm -- 41. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis -- 42. Personal Identity, Derek Parfit -- 43. Persons, Animals, and Ourselves, P.F. Snowdon -- Part IX. Mind and Body -- 44. Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes -- 45. Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances, G.W. Leibniz -- 46. Selections from Thought, Gilbert Harman -- 47. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications, David Lewis -- 48. Selection from Thinking Causes, Donald Davidson -- 49. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas Nagel -- X. Freedom and Determinism -- 50. Selection from Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume -- 51. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person, Harry Frankfurt -- 52. The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism, Peter van Inwagen -- 53. Selection from Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will, Barry Loewer -- 54. Human Freedom and the Self, Roderick M. Chisholm -- References -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Metaphysics.
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| Author |
Farkas, Katalin.
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| LC no. |
2004300020 |
| ISBN |
0199261970 paperback |
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