E. J. Lowe: A Survey of Metaphysics

Cover: 9780198752530 | A Survey of Metaphysics | E. J. Lowe | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2002

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Beschreibung

A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main parts, each relatively self-contained, focusing in turn on the following major themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. In an introductory chapter, the conception of metaphysics underlying the book is explained and defended against the many and varied opponents of metaphysics those students are likely to encounter. While the book makes reference when necessary to the history of metaphysics, its emphasis is on contemporary views and issues. The author's approach is not narrowly partisan, but avoids bland neutrality in matters of controversy.

Über den Autor

E.J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at University of Durham

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction: The nature of metaphysics

Part I

2: Identity over time and change of composition

3: Qualitative change and the doctrine of temporal parts

4: Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidence

Part II

5: Necessity and identity

6: Essentialism

7: Possible worlds

Part III

8: Conterfactual conditionals

9: Causes and conditions

10: Conterfactuals and event causation

Part IV

11: Event causation and agent causation

12: Actions and Events

13: Events, things, and space-time

Part V

14: Absolutism versus relationalism

15: Incongruent conterparts and the nature of space

16: The paradoxes of motion and the possibility of change

17: Tense and the reality of time

18: Causation and the direction of time

Part VI

19: Realism versus nominalism

20: The abstract and the concrete

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Fachbereich:	Populäre Darstellungen
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780198752530
ISBN-10:	0198752539
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lowe, E. J.
Hersteller:	OUP UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	E. J. Lowe
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.01.2002
Gewicht:	0,632 kg