Sketch for a systematic metaphysics
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Sketch for a systematic metaphysics
Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 2012, c2010
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [116]-120) and index
"First published in paperback 2012"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
David Armstrong sets out his metaphysical system in a set of concise and lively chapters each dealing with one aspect of the world. He begins with the assumption that all that exists is the physical world of space-time. On this foundation he constructs a coherent metaphysical scheme that gives plausible answers to many of the great problems of metaphysics. He gives accounts of properties, relations, and particulars; laws of nature; modality; abstract objects such as
numbers; and time and mind.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Properties
- 3. Relations
- 4. States of Affairs
- 5. Laws of Nature
- 6. Reacting to Dispositionalism
- 7. Particulars
- 8. Truthmakers
- 9. Possibility, Actuality, Necessity
- 10. Limits
- 11. Absences
- 12. The Rational disciplines: Logic and Mathematics
- 13. Numbers
- 14. Classes
- 15. Time
- 16. Mind
- References
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