The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics

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Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (2002)
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__ __ __The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics__ is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers that demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality, ontology, personal identity, idealism, and realism

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BD111.B57 2002

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9780470702819   9780631221203   0631221204   0631221212   9780631221210   9780470998977

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Overcoming aduality of concepts and causes: A unifying thread in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind.Robert B. Brandom
What Do We Refer to When We Say" I"?Peter Vein Inwagen
Physics, Metaphysics, and Method in Newton's Dynamics.  (pages 1–18)Lawrence Sklar
Causation.  (pages 19–42)Wesley C. Salmon
What events are.  (pages 43)Jonathan Bennett
Time, Temporality, and Paradox.  (pages 66–86)Richard M. Gale
A Thomist Metaphysics.  (pages 87–109)John J. Haldane
The Concept of Ontological Category: A New Approach.  (pages 110–130)Lorenz B. Puntel
Universals and Predication.  (pages 131–150)Bruce Aune
Composition as a Fiction.  (pages 151–174)Gideon Rosen & Cian Dorr
Composition as a fiction.  (pages 151-74)Gideon Rosen & Cian Dorr
What Do We Refer to When We Say “I”?  (pages 175-189)Peter van Inwagen
What Do We Refer to When We Say “I”?  (pages 175–189)Peter van Inwagen
"Personal Identity: The Non-Branching Form of" What Matters.  (pages 190–218)Jennifer E. Whiting
Idealism.  (pages 219–241)T. L. S. Sprigge
An Idealistic Realism: Presuppositional Realism and Justificatory Idealism.  (pages 242–262)Nicholas Rescher
Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: The Basic Argument of “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”.  (pages 263–281)Robert Brandom
Metaphysical Realism and Logical Nonrealism.  (pages 282)Panayot Butchvarov
The Metaphysics of Possibilia.  (pages 303–316)William G. Lycan
The actual and the possible.  (pages 317--33)Alexander R. Pruss

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