Metaphysics Contemporary Readings 2nd Edition by Michael Loux ISBN 0415962382 9780415962384

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ISBN 10: 0415962382

ISBN 13: 9780415962384

Author: Michael Loux 

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings 2nd Edition: 

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that draws together leading philosophers writing on the major themes in Metaphysics. Chapters appear under the headings:

• Universals
• Particulars
• Modality and Possible Worlds
• Causation
• Time
• Persistence
• Realism and Anti-Realism.
  

Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay by the editor which guides students gently into each topic. Articles by the following leading philosophers are included:

Allaire, Anscombe, Armstrong, Black, Broad, Casullo, Dummett, Ewing, Heller, Hume, Kripke, Lewis, Mackie, McTaggart, Mellor, Merricks , Parfit, Plantinga, Price, Prior, Putnam, Quine, Russell, Smart, Swinburne, Taylor , Van Cleve, van Inwagen, Williams.

Featuring a new section on causation, this new edition is highly accessible and provides a broad-ranging exploration of the subject. Ideal for any philosophy student, this reader will prove essential reading for any metaphysics course. The sections and selections of readings have been updated to complement Michael Loux’s textbook Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, third edition.

 

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings 2nd Edition Table of contents:

Universals

• Bertrand Russell, The World of Universals
• H.H. Price, Universals and Resemblances
• W.V. Quine, On What There Is
• D.C. Williams, The Elements of Being
• David Armstrong, Universals as Attributes

Particulars

• Max Black, The Identity of Indiscernibles
• Edwin B. Allaire, Bare Particulars
• James Van Cleve, Three Versions of the Bundle Theory
• Albert Casullo, A Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory

Modality and possible worlds

• David Lewis, Possible Worlds
• Alvin Plantinga, Actualism and Possible Worlds
• David Lewis, Counterparts or Double Lives?
• Saul Kripke, Identity and Necessity

Causation

• David Hume, Treatise or Inquiry on Causation
• A.C. Ewing, Fundamental Questions of Philosophy: Causation
• Elizabeth Anscombe, Causation and Determination
• J.L. Mackie, Causes and Conditions
• David Lewis, Causation

Time

• J.M.E. McTaggart, Time
• C.D. Broad, Ostensible Temporality
• Richard Taylor, Time and Eternity
• A.N. Prior, The Notion of the Present
• J.J.C. Smart, The Space-Time World
• D.H. Mellor, The Need for Tense

Persistence

• Mark Heller, Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects
• Trenton Merricks, Endurance and Indiscernibility
• Derek Parfit, Personal Identity
• David Lewis, Survival and Identity
• Richard Swinburne, Personal Identity: The Dualist Theory

Realism and anti-realism

• Michael Dummett, Realism
• W.V. Quine, Ontological Relativity
• Hilary Putnam, A Problem About Reference
• Peter Van Inwagen, Objectivity

 

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