Material Beings: The Crucial Balance, Second Edition, Revised - Softcover

Van Inwagen, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801483069 ISBN 13: 9780801483066

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1995

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"There is much to bee learned from this book.... Material Beings is a refreshing example of straight-on, full-speed metaphysics. Van Inwagen goes where his arguments lead him—and they lead him to some remarkable places indeed."
—Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

According to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this controversial thesis, he offers fresh insights on such topics as personal identity, commonsense belief, existence over time, the phenomenon of vagueness, and the relation between metaphysics and ordinary language.

According to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this controversial thesis, he offers fresh insights on such topics as personal identity, commonsense belief, existence over time, the phenomenon of vagueness, and the relation between metaphysics and ordinary language.

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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 many books, including The Problem of Evil and Ontology, Identity, and Modality.

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The topic of this book is material objects. Like most interesting concepts, the concept of a material object is one without precise boundaries. A thing is a material object if it occupies space and endures through time and can move about in space (literally move about, unlike a shadow or a wave or a reflection) and has a surface, and has a mass and is made of a certain stuff or stuffs.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0801483069
• ISBN 13: 9780801483066
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 299
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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