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What Is Metaphysics?
Taschenbuch von John Heil
Sprache: Englisch

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If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or presuppositions, which allow us to make sense of it.

Drawing on examples from art, science, and daily life, John Heil shows how metaphysics begins in questioning our everyday assumptions about how the world "works" and ends with speculation on the nature of the universe itself. In chapters that cover the major topics in the academic study of metaphysics, from free will and consciousness to time and objectivity, Heil explains how metaphysical questions underpin everything human beings do.

This accessible book will show you how professional philosophers try to categorize and make sense of our world of perception and experience and explains why everyone should take metaphysics seriously.
If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or presuppositions, which allow us to make sense of it.

Drawing on examples from art, science, and daily life, John Heil shows how metaphysics begins in questioning our everyday assumptions about how the world "works" and ends with speculation on the nature of the universe itself. In chapters that cover the major topics in the academic study of metaphysics, from free will and consciousness to time and objectivity, Heil explains how metaphysical questions underpin everything human beings do.

This accessible book will show you how professional philosophers try to categorize and make sense of our world of perception and experience and explains why everyone should take metaphysics seriously.
Über den Autor
John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. Professor Heil is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and is listed among the 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Time goes By - Or Does It?

Chapter 3 Appearance and Reality

Chapter 4 What there Is

Chapter 5 What Else there Is

Chapter 6 One from Many, Many from One

Chapter 7 Aristotle vs Hume

Chapter 8 Is this Chapter Really Necessary?

Chapter 9 Conscious Minds

Chapter 10 Free Will

Chapter 11 Are We there Yet?

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 176 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509546497
ISBN-10: 1509546499
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A509546490
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Heil, John
Hersteller: Polity Press
Maße: 215 x 136 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: John Heil
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,256 kg
Artikel-ID: 119745914
Über den Autor
John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. Professor Heil is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and is listed among the 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Time goes By - Or Does It?

Chapter 3 Appearance and Reality

Chapter 4 What there Is

Chapter 5 What Else there Is

Chapter 6 One from Many, Many from One

Chapter 7 Aristotle vs Hume

Chapter 8 Is this Chapter Really Necessary?

Chapter 9 Conscious Minds

Chapter 10 Free Will

Chapter 11 Are We there Yet?

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 176 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509546497
ISBN-10: 1509546499
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A509546490
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Heil, John
Hersteller: Polity Press
Maße: 215 x 136 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: John Heil
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,256 kg
Artikel-ID: 119745914
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