Description: Metaphysics : The Fundamentals, Paperback by Koons, Robert C.; Pickavance, Timothy H., ISBN 1405195738, ISBN-13 9781405195737, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Metaphysics: The Fundamentals provides readers with an accessible and comprehensive introduction to modern analytic metaphysics. Th covers a broad range of key topics, including theories of properties and particulars, the notion of truthmakers, powers and possibilities, material composition, and a variety of issues related to time and causation. Thematically and systematically organized, each chapter features carefully worked-through questions about these topics, and all the important assumptions, axioms, and methodological principles are clearly identified. Readers with minimal technical knowledge of the field ar introduced to the seminal philosophical works of such leading contemporary figures as David Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, Kit Fine, Peter van Inwagen, and John Hawthorne, along with the contributions of noted historical figures like RenT Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, and Bertrand Russell. Modern perspectives of Neo-Humeans, Platonists, and Neo-Aristotelians are also covered-with the best arguments and objections of these schools of thought clearly stated. this book is specifically written for students encountering the subject for the first time.
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Number of Pages: 280 Pages
Publication Name: Metaphysics : the Fundamentals
Language: English
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Subject: Metaphysics
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.7 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy
Author: Timothy Pickavance, Robert C. Koons
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Fundamentals of Philosophy Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
