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1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge key guides |
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Routledge key guides.
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| Contents |
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF CONCEPTS; INTRODUCTION; METAPHYSICS: The Key Concepts; ABSTRACT VS CONCRETE; AGENT CAUSATION; ALEPH; ANALYSIS; ANALYTIC VS SYNTHETIC TRUTHS; ANCESTRAL RELATION; ANIMALISM; ANTI-CRITERIALISM; ANTI-REALISM; ARISTOTLE; ARMSTRONG, DAVID; A-THEORY; AUSTERE NOMINALISM; BACKWARDS CAUSATION; BEING; BERKELEY, GEORGE; BILKING ARGUMENT; BODILY CONTINUITY; BRADLEY'S REGRESS; BRAINS IN A VAT; B-THEORY; BUNDLE THEORY OF THE SELF OR PERSON; BUNDLE THEORY VS SUBSTANCE-ATTRIBUTE THEORY; CANBERRA PLAN; CARVING NATURE AT ITS JOINTS |
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Categorical and dispositional propertiescausal relata; causation by absence; chance; class; class nominalism; common sense; compatibilism; concept; conceptual analysis; conceptual scheme; conceptual vs logical truths; concrete; consequence argument; contingent truths; counterfactual conditional; counterfactual theory of causation; criterion of ontological commitment; determinables and determinates; determinism; diachronic identity; direction of time; dispositional properties; dretske-tooley-armstrong view of laws; empiricism; endurantism; essence; eternalism; event; exemplification; existence |
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Experimental philosophyextrinsic properties; facts; fictionalism; fission; flow of time; form and matter; four-dimensionalism; frankfurt's nefarious neurosurgeon; frankfurt-style cases; fusion, mereological; gedankenexperiment; general causal sentences; global realism; god's eye view; grandfather paradox; growing block theory; guidance control vs regulative control; gunk; haecceitism; hard determinism; holes; hume, david; humeanism; humean supervenience; idealism; identity; identity of indiscernibles; identity over time; illusion of free will; immanent realism about universals; improper part |
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Incompatibilismindeterminism; indexical; indiscernibility of identicals; infinity; instantiation; intrinsic vs extrinsic properties; inus conditions; kant, immanuel; kripke, saul; law of nature; leibniz's law; lewis, david; libertarianism; linguistic framework; linguistic turn; locke, john; logical truth; mctaggart, j. m. e.; meinongianism; memory theory; mereological fusion; mereology; metametaphysics; metaphysical realism; modality; modal realism; moorean facts; moral responsibility; moving spotlight theory of time; multiple occupancy thesis; natural kinds; natural law; natural necessity |
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Natural philosophynatural property; necessary a posteriori truths; necessity; necessity of origin thesis; negative facts; neuron diagram; neuroscience and free will; nihilism; nominalism; non-existent objects; numbers; ockham's razor; one-to-one relation; only x and y principle; ontological commitment; ontology; ostrich nominalism; overdetermination; overlap; paraphrase; part; participation; particulars; perdurantism; persistence; phase sortal; phenomenalism and idealism; platonic heaven; platonism; point particle; possibilia; possible worlds; possibility; postmodernism; pragmatism |
| Summary |
"Informative, accessible, and fun to read- this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other resource like it.'- Meghan Griffith, Davidson College, USA'Marvellous! This book provides the very best place to start for students wanting to take the first step into understanding metaphysics. Undergraduates would do well to buy it and consult it regularly. The quality and clarity of the material are consistently high."--Chris Daly, University of Manchester, UKEver wondered about Gunk, Brains in a Va |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Metaphysics -- Dictionaries
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics
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dictionaries.
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Dictionaries
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionnaires.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Effingham, Nikk
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Goff, Philip
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| ISBN |
9780203835258 |
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0203835255 |
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1136855173 |
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9781136855177 |
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1136855181 |
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9781136855184 |
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1283042266 |
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9781283042260 |
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9786613042262 |
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6613042269 |
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