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" Metaphysics : "
edited by Peter van Inwagen and Dean W. Zimmerman.
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BL
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879290
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Metaphysics : : the big questions /\ edited by Peter van Inwagen and Dean W. Zimmerman.
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| Publication Statement
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Malden, Mass. :: Blackwell Publishers,, 1998.
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| Series Statement
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Philosophy, the big questions
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xiii, 498 pages :: illustrations ;; 26 cm
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063120587X
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: 0631205888
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: 9780631205876
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: 9780631205883
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Universals and resemblances: Chapter I of 'Thinking and experience' / H.H. Price -- The elements of being / D.C. Williams -- The principle of individualization: an excerpt from 'Human knowledge, its scope and limits' / Bertrand Russell -- Distinct discernibles and the bundle theory / Dean W. Zimmerman -- Time: an excerpt from ' The nature of existence' / J. McT. E. McTaggart -- McTaggart's arguments against the reality of time: an excerpt from 'Examination of McTaggart's philosophy' / C.D. Broad -- The notion of the present / A.N. Prior -- The general problem of time and change: an excerpt from 'Scientific thought' / C.D. Broad -- The space-time world: an excerpt from 'Phlosophy and scientific realism' / J.J.C. Smart -- Topis, soris, noris: an excerpt from 'The existence of space and time' / Ian Hinckfuss -- Some free thinking about time / A.N. Prior -- The fourth dimension: an excerpt from 'The ambidextrous universe' / Martin Gardner -- Incongruent counterparts and higher dimensions / James van Cleve -- Achilles and the tortoise / Max Black -- A contemporary look at Zeno's paradoxes: an excerpt from 'Space, time and motion' / Wesley C. Salmon -- Grasping the infinite / Jose A. Bernadette -- The paradoxes of time travel / David Lewis -- Of confused subjects which are equivalent to two subjects: an excerpt from 'The Port-Royal logic' / Antoine Arnauld & Pierre Nicole -- Identity through time / Roderick M. Chisholm -- Identity, ostension and hypostasis / W.V.O. Quine -- Identity: an excerpt from 'Quiddities' / W.V.O. Quine -- In defense of stages: Postscript B to "Survival and identity" / David Lewis -- Some problems about time / Peter Geach -- The problem of temporary intrinsics: a excerpt from 'On the plurality of worlds' / David Lewis -- Temporary intrinsics and presentism / Dean W. Zimmerman -- Constant conjunction: an excerpt from 'A treatise of human nature' / David Hume -- Efficient cause and active power: an excerpt from 'Essays on the active powers of the human mind' / Thomas Reid -- Psychological and physical causal laws: an excerpt from 'The analysis of mind' / Bertrand Russell -- Causality: an excerpt from 'A modern introduction to logic' / L. Susan Stebbing -- Causality and determination / G.E.M. Anscombe -- The theory of sensa: a excerpt from 'Scientific thought' / C.D. Broad -- Qualities: an excerpt from 'Consciousness an causality' / D.M. Armstrong -- The status of appearances: an excerpt from 'Theory of knowledge' (1st edition) / Roderick M. Chisholm -- Which physical thing am I?: an excerpt from "Is there a mind-body problem?" / Roderick M. Chisholm -- Personal identity: a materialist account / Sydney Shoemaker -- Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit -- Personal identity: the dualist theory / Richard Swinburne -- The puzzle of conscious experience / David J. Chalmers -- Free will as involving determination and inconceivable without it / R.E. Hobart -- Human freedom and the self / Roderick M. Chisholm -- The mystery of metaphysical freedom / Peter van Inwagen -- The agent as cause / Timothy O'Connor -- Speaking of objects / W.V.O. Quine -- After metaphysics, what? / Hilary Putnam -- Truth and convention / Hilary Putnam -- Nonabsolute existence and conceptual relativity: an excerpt from "Putnam's pragmatic realism" / Ernest Sosa -- Addendum to "Nonabsolute existence and conceptual relativity": objections and replies / Ernest Sosa -- The problem of being: Chapter 3 of 'Some problems of philosophy' / William James -- The puzzle of reality: why does the universe exist? / Derek Parfit -- Response to Derek Parfit / Richard Swinburne -- The cosmological argument and the principle of sufficient reason / William L. Rowe -- The ontological argument: Chapters II-IV of the' Proslogion' / St. Anselm -- Anselm's ontological arguments / Norman Malcolm -- The rejection of metaphysics: Chapter I of 'Philosophy and logical syntax' / Rudolf Carnap -- Postmodernism, feminism, and meta- physics: an excerpt from 'Thinking fragments' / Jane Flax -- Metaphysics and feminist theory: excerpts from "Feminist metaphysics" and "Anti-essentialism in feminist theory" / Charlotte Witt.
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| Abstract
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This collection of classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics discusses how the appearance of things is related to the things that appear, the nature of space and time, how things persist through changes of parts and properties and more.
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Metaphysics.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysik
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Metafysica.
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| Dewey Classification
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110
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BD111.M575 1998
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08.31bcl
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5,1ssgn
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CC 5900rvk
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Van Inwagen, Peter.
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Zimmerman, Dean W.
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