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" Reading metaphysics : "
[edited by] Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd.
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BL
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988802
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b743172
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Reading metaphysics : : selected texts with interactive commentary /\ [edited by] Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd.
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| Publication Statement
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Malden, MA :: Blackwell Pub.,, ©2007.
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| Series Statement
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Reading philosophy
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ix, 244 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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1405123664
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: 1405123672
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: 9781405123662
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: 9781405123679
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-239) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Personal identity -- Personal identity / Derek Parfit -- Commentary on parfit -- Personhood and personal identity / Marya Schechtman -- Commentary on Schechtman -- 2. Free will -- The incompatibility of free will and determinism / Peter van Inwagen -- Commentary on van Inwagen -- Could have done otherwise (extract from Elbow Room) / Daniel Dennett -- Commentary on Dennett -- 3. Realism and anti-realism -- 'On the very idea of a conceptual scheme' / Donald Davidson -- Commentary on Davidson -- 'Thought and reality' (extract from The View from Nowhere) / Thomas Nagel -- Commentary on Nagel -- 4. Realism and nominalism -- '"Ostrich nominalism" or "Mirage realism"?' / Michael Devitt -- Commentary on Devitt -- 'Against "Ostrich" nominalism : a reply to Michael Devitt' / D.M. Armstrong -- Commentary on Armstrong -- 5. Possible worlds -- Extract from Counterfactuals / David Lewis -- Commentary on Lewis -- Extract from Naming and Necessity / Saul Kripke -- Commentary on Kripke -- 6. Persistence over time -- Extract from On the Plurality of Worlds / David Lewis -- Commentary on Lewis -- 'Endurance and temporary intrinsics' / Sally Haslanger -- Commentary on Haslanger -- 'Tensing the copula' / David Lewis -- Commentary on Lewis.
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| Abstract
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A student-friendly collection of key contemporary texts in metaphysics, this title introduces readers to the perennial problems of metaphysics and the ways that different analytic philosophers have approached them.
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Metaphysics.
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Metafysik.
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Metaphysics.
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métaphysique, anthologie.
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Metaphysik.
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Metaphysik.
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| Dewey Classification
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110
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BD95.R43 2007
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08.31bcl
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5,1ssgn
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CC 5900rvk
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Beebee, Helen.
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Dodd, Julian.
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