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Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction

✍ Scribed by Michael J. Loux, Thomas M. Crisp

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Leaves
373
Series
Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
Edition
4
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes, and (2) Metaphysical Indeterminacy or vagueness. This new edition also keeps the user-friendly format, the chapter overviews summarizing the main topics, concrete examples to clarify difficult concepts, annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, endnotes, and a full bibliography.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface to First Edition xi
Preface to Second Edition xiii
Preface to Third Edition xiv
Preface to Fourth Edition xv

Introduction 1

  1. The Problem of Universals I: Metaphysical Realism 17

  2. The Problem of Universals II: Nominalism 45

  3. Concrete Particulars I: Substrata, Bundles, and Substances 82

  4. Propositions and Their Neighbors 118

  5. The Necessary and the Possible 149

  6. Causation 181

  7. The Nature of Time 198

  8. Concrete Particulars II: Persistence through Time 223

  9. Concrete Particulars III: Parts and Wholes 250

  10. Metaphysical Indeterminacy 279

  11. The Challenge of Anti-Realism 304

Bibliography 339
Index 350

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