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Crane, Tim
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Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
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9780199261970
Metaphysics a guide and anthology
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- Contributor:
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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, 2004Language(s): English