Metaphysics a guide and anthology

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    Crane, Tim

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    Farkas, Katalin

    Contents:
    • Part I. God
    • Why Anything? Why This? / Derek Parfit
    • The Five Ways / Thomas Aquinas
    • Selection from Natural Theology / William Paley
    • Selection from Proslogion / Anselm of Canterbury
    • Selection from Monadology / G.W. Leibniz
    • Evil and Omnipotence / J.L. Mackie
    • Part II. Realism and Idealism
    • Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke
    • Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous / George Berkeley
    • Selection from Critique of Pure Reason / Immanuel Kant
    • Selection from Matter and Sense / Howard Robinson
    • Realism / Michael Dummett
    • Part III. Being
    • Selection from Categories / Aristotle
    • Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke
    • Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity / Robert M. Adams
    • On What There Is / W.V. Quine
    • Selection from Material Beings / Peter van Inwagen
    • Can There Be Vague Objects? / Gareth Evans
    • Vague Identity : Evans Misunderstood / David Lewis
    • Part IV. Universals and Particulars
    • Selections from Parmenides and Republic / Plato
    • Selection from Universals : An Opinionated Introduction / D.M. Armstrong
    • Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals / David Lewis
    • On the Elements of Being : I / Donald C. Williams
    • Causality and Properties / Sydney Shoemaker
    • Part V. Necessity
    • Selection from Naming and Necessity / Saul Kripke
    • Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds / David Lewis
    • Actualism and Possible Worlds / Alvin Plantinga
    • Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility / D.M. Armstrong
    • Part VI. Causation
    • Selection from Metaphysics / Aristotle
    • Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume
    • Causation / David Lewis
    • Causal Relations / Donald Davidson
    • Selections from The Facts of Causation / D.H. Mellor
    • Part VII. Time and Space
    • Selection from Physics / Aristotle
    • Selection from The Nature of Existence / J.M.E. McTaggart
    • Changes in Events and Changes in Things / Arthur N. Prior
    • Selection from Asymmetries in Time / Paul Horwich
    • Selection from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
    • The Space-Time world / J.J.C. Smart
    • The Paradoxes of Time Travel / David Lewis
    • Part VIII. Identity
    • Identity through Time / Roderick M
    • Chisholm
    • Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds / David Lewis
    • Personal Identity / Derek Parfit
    • Persons, Animals, and Ourselves / P.F. Snowdon
    • Part IX. Mind and Body
    • Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy / Rene Descartes
    • Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances / G.W. Leibniz
    • Selections from Thought / Gilbert Harman
    • Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications / David Lewis
    • Selection from Thinking Causes / Donald Davidson
    • What Is It Like to Be a Bat? / Thomas Nagel
    • Part X. Freedom and Determinism
    • Selection from Treatise of Human Nature / David Hume
    • Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person / Harry Frankfurt
    • The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism / Peter van Inwagen
    • Selection from Freedom from Physics : Quantum Mechanics and Free Will / Barry Loewer
    • Human Freedom and the Self / Roderick M. Chisholm.
    Original Publisher: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
    Language(s): English

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Crane, Tim

Farkas, Katalin

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Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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0199261970

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