Metaphysics
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Bibliographic Information
Metaphysics
（Dimensions of philosophy series）
Oxford University Press, 1993
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that attempts to answer the deepest questions about how things really are. The author builds his textbook around these crucial questions: what are the most general features of the world; why does the world exist and what is the nature of rational beings and their place in the world. This text surveys the traditional answers to these questions and shows by example how to think about them more clearly and deeply on one's own. It introduces most of the perennial topics of metaphysics, including appearance and reality, identity and individuation, objectivity, necessary existence of mind and body, teleology and freedom of the will.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part I: The Way the World Is. 1: Individuality. 2: Externality. 3: Objectivity. Part II: Why the World Is. 4: Necessary Being. 5: The Ontological Argument. 6: Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument. Part III: The Inhabitants of the World. 6: What Rational Beings are There?. 7: The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose. 8: The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism. 9: The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity. 10: The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will. 11: Concluding Meditation
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