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Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology
Edited by Tim Crane and Katalin Farkas
792 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-926197-0
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Paperback
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15 January 2004
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- Complete introduction to Metaphysics
- Combines 54 classic writings on the subject with a substantial, broad-ranging introduction and detailed introductions to each of the ten parts of the book (the editorial material amounts to about 130 pages)
- Discussion questions and further reading at the end of each part stimulate the student and make this book ideal for course use and seminar discussion
- The flexible structure enables teachers to plan a number of different kinds of courses based on this book
- Introductory material is clear and accessible
This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, which set the extracts in context and guide the reader through them.
The book is divided into 10 sections, providing instructors with flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses. It contains 54 important writings on metaphysics, with introductions to each section, discussion questions and detailed guides to further reading. Perfect for undergraduate courses, this book offers the ideal self-contained introduction to metaphysics.
Readership: Undergraduate students of metaphysics in the UK, US, Canada and Australasia.
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Edited by Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy, University College London, and Katalin Farkas, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest. Contributors:
Living authors:
Derek Parfit, All Souls College, Oxford
Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame
Robert Adams, Yale
David Armstrong, University of Sydney
Sydney Shoemaker, Cornell
Hugh Mellor, Darwin College, Cambridge
Paul Horwich, University College London
J.J.C. Smart, Monash University
Paul Snowdon, University College
London
Gilbert Harman, Princeton
Thomas Nagel, NYU
Harry Frankfurt, Princeton
Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame
Barry Loewer, Rutgers
Howard Robinson, Central European University
Michael Dummett,
Saul Kripke, Princeton
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"This is the best anthology of metaphysics that I know of. It covers all the right topics with a good mix of classic and contemporary articles. Especially useful are the simple, elegant introductions to the various sections of the anthology" - Peter Menzies, Macquarie University "An excellent volume. Impressive editorial skill is displayed in introducing the student to all of the venerable and central elements of metaphysics. Concise and elegant introductory essays for each theme guide the reader deftly through a judicious selection of over 50 classic readings. It is difficult to imagine a contemporary course in metaphysics that would not benefit from making substantial use of this most welcome resource" - John Divers,
University of Sheffield
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I God
Intorduction:
1: Derek Parfit: Why Anything? Why This?
2: Thomas Aquinas: The five ways
3: William Paley: Extract from Natural Theology
4: Anselm of Canterbury: Extract from Proslogion
5: G.W. Leibniz: Extract from Monadology
6: J.L. Mackie: Evil and omnipotence
II Realism and Idealism
Introduction
7: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
8: George Berkeley: Selection from Three Dialogues
9: Immanuel Kant: Selection from Critique of Pure Reason
10: Selection from Matter and Sense
11: Michael Dummett: Realism
III Being
Introduction
12: Aristotle: Selection from Categories
13: John Locke: Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
14: Robert Merrihew Adams: Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity
15: W.V. Quine: On what there is
16: Peter van Inwagen: Selection from Material Beings
17: Gareth Evans: Can there be vague objects?
18: David Lewis: Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood
Part IV Universals and Particulars
Introduction
19: Plato: Selections from Republic and Parmenides
20: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction
21: David Lewis: Selection from New work for a theory of universals
22: Donald C. Williams: On the Elements of Being: I
23: Sydney Shoemaker: Causality and Properties
Part V Necessity
Introduction
24: Saul Kripke: Selection from Naming and Necessity
25: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
26: Alvin Plantinga: Actualism and Possible Worlds
27: D.M. Armstrong: Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility
Part VI Causation
Introduction
28: Aristotle: Selection from Metaphysics
29: David Hume: Selection from Enquiy Concerning Human Understanding
30: David Lewis: Causation
31: Donald Davidson: Causal Relations
32: D.H. Mellor: Selections from The Faces of Causation
VII Time and Space
Introduction
33: Aristotle: Selection from Physics
34: J.M.E McTaggart: Selection from The Nature of Existence
35: Arthur N. Prior: Changes in Events and Changes in Things
36: Paul Horwich: Selection from Asymmetries in Time
37: Selection from The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
38: J.J.C. Smart: The space-time world
39: David Lewis: The Paradoxes of Time Travel
Part VIII Identity
Introduction
40: Roderick M. Chisholm: Identity through Time
41: David Lewis: Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
42: Derek Parfit: Personal Identity
43: P.F. Snowdon: Persons, Animals, and Ourselves
Part IX Mind and Body
Introduction
44: Rene Descartes: Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy
45: G.W. Leibniz: Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances
46: Gilbert Harman: Selections from Thought
47: David Lewis: Psychophysical and theoretical identifications
48: Donald Davidson: Selection from Thinking Causes
49: Thomas Nagel: What is it like to be a bat?
X Freedom and Determinism
Introduction
50: David Hume: Selection from Treatise of Human Nature
51: Harry Frankfurt: Freedom of the will and the concept of a person
52: Peter van Inwagen: The incompatibility of freewill and determinism
53: Barry Loewer: Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will
54: Roderick M. Chisholm: Human Freedom and the self
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