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- Book Title
- A Survey of Metaphysics
- ISBN
- 9780198752530
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198752539
ISBN-13
9780198752530
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2193556
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Publication Name
Survey of Metaphysics
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Epistemology, Metaphysics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2002-280736
TitleLeading
A
Reviews
'This book provides excellent coverage for typical courses inmetaphysics...Lowe has avoided unnecessary technicalities and jargon; thewriting is both clear and accessible to typical philosophy undergraduates. Hehas done a remarkable job on this score.'Professor Gary Rosenkrantz, University of North Carolina, Greenboro, 'This is a great book. It will immediately become--and will remain forsome time--one of the two or three books that are seriously considered forany metaphysics course that uses a textbook. 'Professor Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia, US'This book provides excellent coverage for typical courses in metaphysics...Lowe has avoided unnecessary technicalities and jargon; the writing is both clear and accessible to typical philosophy undergraduates. He has done a remarkable job on this score.'Professor Gary Rosenkrantz, University of North Carolina, Greenboro, 'This is a great book. It will immediately become--and will remain forsome time--one of the two or three books that are seriously considered forany metaphysics course that uses a textbook.'Professor Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia, US, 'This book provides excellent coverage for typical courses in metaphysics...Lowe has avoided unnecessary technicalities and jargon; the writing is both clear and accessible to typical philosophy undergraduates. He has done a remarkable job on this score.'Professor Gary Rosenkrantz, University of North Carolina, Greenboro, "This is a great book. It will immediately become--and will remain forsome time--one of the two or three books that are seriously considered forany metaphysics course that uses a textbook. "--Professor Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia, US "This book provides excellent coverage for typical courses in metaphysics...Lowe has avoided unnecessary technicalities and jargon; the writing is both clear and accessible to typical philosophy undergraduates. He has done a remarkable job on this score."--Professor Gary Rosenkrantz, University ofNorth Carolina, Greenboro, "This is a great book. It will immediately become--and will remain forsome time--one of the two or three books that are seriously considered forany metaphysics course that uses a textbook. "--Professor Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia, US"This book provides excellent coverage for typical courses in metaphysics...Lowe has avoided unnecessary technicalities and jargon; the writing is both clear and accessible to typical philosophy undergraduates. He has done a remarkable job on this score."--Professor Gary Rosenkrantz, University of North Carolina, Greenboro, "This is a great book. It will immediately become--and will remain forsome time--one of the two or three books that are seriously considered forany metaphysics course that uses a textbook. "--Professor Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia, US "This book provides excellent coverage for typical courses in metaphysics...Lowe has avoided unnecessary technicalities and jargon; the writing is both clear and accessible to typical philosophy undergraduates. He has done a remarkable job on this score."--Professor Gary Rosenkrantz, University of North Carolina, Greenboro, 'This is a great book. It will immediately become--and will remain forsome time--one of the two or three books that are seriously considered forany metaphysics course that uses a textbook. 'Professor Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia, US, 'E. J. Lowe, one of the UK's leading metaphysicians, has written a superb introduction to metaphysics. ... Lowe's book is the best introduction to metaphysics available.' THES
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
110
Table Of Content
1. Introduction: The nature of metaphysicsPart I2. Identity over time and change of composition3. Qualitative change and the doctrine of temporal parts4. Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidencePart II5. Necessity and identity6. Essentialism7. Possible worldsPart III8. Conterfactual conditionals9. Causes and conditions10. Conterfactuals and event causationPart IV11. Event causation and agent causation12. Actions and Events13. Events, things, and space-timePart V14. Absolutism versus relationalism15. Incongruent conterparts and the nature of space16. The paradoxes of motion and the possibility of change17. Tense and the reality of time18. Causation and the direction of timePart VI19. Realism versus nominalism20. The abstract and the concrete
Synopsis
A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics in the subject likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The emphasis is on contemporary views and issues rather than on the history of metaphysics., A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, A Survey of Metaphysics covers all of the most important topics in the field. It adopts the fairly traditional conception of metaphysics as a subject that deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main sections that address the following themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. It focuses on contemporary views and issues throughout, rather than on the history of metaphysics., A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main parts, each relatively self-contained, focusing in turn on the following major themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. In an introductory chapter, the conception of metaphysics underlying the book is explained and defended against the many and varied opponents of metaphysics those students are likely to encounter. While the book makes reference when necessary to the history of metaphysics, its emphasis is on contemporary views and issues. The author's approach is not narrowly partisan, but avoids bland neutrality in matters of controversy.
LC Classification Number
BD111.L685 2002
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