Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics

✍ Scribed by Peter J. Loptson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 321
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Explores some of the major topics in metaphysics, such as essence, existence, substance, purpose, space, time, mind, causality, God, freedom, and the possibilities of immortality. An excellent companion to metaphysical studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 What Is Metaphysics
2 Metaphysics and Its Critics: Realism, Antirealism, and the Possibility of Metaphysics
3 Metaphysical Systems
4 Categories and First Principles
5 Existence
6 Essence and Possible Worlds
7 Substance
8 Universals
9 Space
10 Time
11 Causality
12 Purpose
13 Persons, Personal Identity, and Metaphysical Luck
14 Mind
15 God
16 Freedom and Determinism
17 Immortality
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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