{"product_id":"metaphysics-9781405125864","title":"Metaphysics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis extensively revised and expanded edition of van Inwagen and Zimmerman's popular collection of readings in metaphysics now features twenty-two additional selections, new sections on existence and reality, and an updated editorial commentary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An outstanding and outstandingly complete set of papers in metaphysics, selected by two of the foremost metaphysicians.\" \u003ci\u003eAlvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to 2nd Edition. \u003cp\u003eSources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: What is metaphysics?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: What Are the Most General Features of the World?:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA. What is existence?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Holes:David Lewis and Stephanie Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. On What There Is:W. V. O. Quine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Beyond Being and Nonbeing:Roderick M. Chisholm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB. What is the relationship between an individual and its characteristics?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Universals: an Excerpt from The Problems of Philosophy:Bertrand Russell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Universals as Attributes:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excerpt from Universals: an Opinionated Introduction,David M. Armstrong.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Universals and Resemblances: Chapter 1 of Thinking and Experience H. H. Price.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Elements of Being:D.C. Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Identity of Indiscernibles:Max Black.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory:Dean W. Zimmerman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC. What is time? What is space?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Time: an Excerpt from The Nature of Existence:J. McT. E. McTaggart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. McTaggart’s Arguments against the Reality of Time: an Excerpt from Examination of McTaggart’s Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC. D. Broad.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Notion of the Present:A. N. Prior.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Changes in Events and Changes in Things:A. N. Prior.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. The General Problem of Time and Change: an Excerpt from Scientific Thought:C. D. Broad.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. The Myth of Passage:D. C. Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Some Free Thinking about Time:A. N. Prior.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. The Fourth Dimension: an Excerpt from The Ambidextrous Universe:Martin Gardner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Incongruent Counterparts and Higher Dimensions:James Van Cleve.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. The Traditional Conception of Space, and the Principle of Extensive Abstraction:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excerpt from Scientific Thought:C. D. Broad.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Achilles and the Tortoise: Max Black.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. A Contemporary Look at Zeno’s Paradoxes: an Excerpt from Space, Time, and Motion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWesley C. Salmon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Grasping the Infinite: José A. Benardete.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. The Paradoxes of Time Travel: David Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD. How do Things Persist through Changes of Parts and Properties?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Of Confused Subjects Which Are Equivalent to Two Subjects:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Excerpt from The Port-Royal Logic:Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. The Paradox of Increase:Eric T. Olson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis:W. V. O. Quine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. In Defense of Stages: Postscript B to “Survival and Identity”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics: an Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Temporary Intrinsics and Presentism:Dean W. Zimmerman.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. How do Causes Bring about their Effects?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Constant Conjunction: an Excerpt from A Treatise of Human Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Hume.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Efficient Cause and Active Power: an Excerpt from Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Reid.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Psychological and Physical Causal Laws: an Excerpt from The Analysis of Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBertrand Russell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. Causality: an Excerpt from A Modern Introduction to Logic: L. Susan Stebbing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. Causality and Determination: G. E. M. Anscombe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: What Is Our Place in the World?:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA. How Are Mind and Body Related?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. Which Physical Thing Am I?: an Excerpt from “Is There a Mind–Body Problem?”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoderick M. Chisholm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. Personal Identity: a Materialist Account: Sydney Shoemaker.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. An Argument for Animalism: Eric T. Olson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons: Derek Parfit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory: Richard Swinburne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. The Causal Theory of the Mind: David M. Armstrong.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. The Puzzle of Conscious Experience: David J. Chalmers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. Neutral Monism: an Excerpt from Philosophy: Bertrand Russell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB. Is it Possible for Us to Act Freely?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. We Are Never Free: an Excerpt from The System of Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaul-Henri Dietrich, Baron d’Holbach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. Free Will as Involving Determination and Inconceivable without It.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eR. E. Hobart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. Freedom, Causation, and Preexistence: an Excerpt from Problems of Mind and Matter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. Human Freedom and the Self: Roderick M. Chisholm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. The Consequence Argument: Peter van Inwagen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. The Mystery of Metaphysical Freedom: Peter van Inwagen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. The Agent as Cause: Timothy O’Connor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility: Harry G. Frankfurt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person: Harry G. Frankfurt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Are There Many Worlds?:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA. Are There Worlds Other than the Actual World?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. Modal Realism at Work: an Excerpt from On the Plurality of Worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. Counterparts of Persons and Their Bodies: David Lewis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54. Identity and Necessity: Saul Kripke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB. Is There More than One Actual World?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55. After Metaphysics, What?: Hilary Putnam.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56. Truth and Convention: Hilary Putnam.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57. Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity: an Excerpt from “Putnam’s Pragmatic Realism”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErnest Sosa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58. Addendum to “Nonabsolute Existence and Conceptual Relativity”: Objections and Replies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eErnest Sosa.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Why Is There a World?:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59. The Problem of Being: Chapter 3 of Some Problems of Philosophy: William James.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60. Why Anything? Why This?: Derek Parfit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61. Response to Derek Parfit: Richard Swinburne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62. The Cosmological Argument: an Excerpt from A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Clarke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63. The Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason: William L. Rowe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64. The Ontological Argument: Chapters II–IV of the Proslogion: St Anselm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65. Anselm’s Ontological Arguments: Norman Malcolm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407863849303,"sku":"9781405125864","price":32.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405125864.jpg?v=1730500779","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/metaphysics-9781405125864","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}