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Reading metaphysics :

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1405123672

9781405123662

9781405123679

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Reading metaphysics :

[Book]

selected texts with interactive commentary /

[edited by] Helen Beebee and Julian Dodd.

Malden, MA :

Blackwell Pub.,

©2007.

ix, 244 pages :

illustrations ;

25 cm.

Reading philosophy

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-239) and index.

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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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.

Metaphysics.

Metafysik.

Metaphysics.

Metaphysik.

Metaphysik.

métaphysique, anthologie.

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Beebee, Helen.

Dodd, Julian.

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