Metaphysics: The Big Questions (Philosophy, the Big Questions, 4) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 063120587X ISBN 13: 9780631205876

Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1998

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This volume provides a vital student resource: a collection of the essential classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics.

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Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of God, Knowledge, and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology (1995), Metaphysics (1993), Material Beings (1990), and An Essay on Free Will (1983).

Dean Zimmerman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has published articles on metaphysics in The American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Mind, The Monist, Nous, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and other journals and collections.

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This student anthology presents both classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics and collects a wide range of answers to key metaphysical questions.

Metaphysics originates in attempts to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the world and our place in it. How are the appearances of things related to the things that appear? What is the nature of space and time? How do things persist through changes of parts and properties? How do causes bring about their effects? What is the relation between mind and body? Is it possible for us to act freely? Is there just one world? Why is there a world at all? Could there be an answer to this question? If so, must the answer appeal to the action of a necessary being? The anthology consists of a wide range of answers to these questions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 063120587X
• ISBN 13: 9780631205876
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 498
• Herausgeber: Van Inwagen Peter, Zimmerman Dean W.
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