Metaphysics: A Guide and Anthology / Edition 1

by Tim Crane, Katalin Farkas

Overview

A complete and self-contained introduction to metaphysics, this anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of fifty-four of the best classical and contemporary readings on the subject. The readings are organized into ten sections: God, idealism and realism, being, universals and particulars, necessity and contingency, causation, space and time, identity, mind and body, and freewill and determinism. It features a substantial general introduction and detailed section introductions that set the selections in context and guide readers through them. Discussion questions and detailed guides to further reading are also included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199261970
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/04/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	792
Product dimensions:	9.72(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.59(d)

About the Author

Tim Crane has taught philosophy at University College London since 1990. He took his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1989. Katalin Farkas graduated in mathematics and philosophy from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and she took her PhD in philosophy from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1998.

Table of Contents

Each Part opens with an Introduction and ends with Study Questions and Further Reading.List of BoxesNotes on ContributorsPart I. God1. Why Anything? Why This?, Derek Parfit2. The Five Ways, Thomas Aquinas3. Selection from Natural Theology, William Paley4. Selection from Proslogion, Anselm of Canterbury5. Selection from Monadology, G.W. Leibniz6. Evil and Omnipotence, J.L. MackiePart II. Realism and Idealism7. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke8. Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, George Berkeley9. Selection from Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant10. Selection from Matter and Sense, Howard Robinson11. Realism, Michael DummettPart III. Being12. Selection from Categories, Aristotle13. Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke14. Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity, Robert M. Adams15. On What There Is, W.V. Quine16. Selection from Material Beings, Peter van Inwagen17. Can There Be Vague Objects?, Gareth Evans18. Vague Identity: Evans Misunderstood, David LewisPart IV. Universals and Particulars19. Selections from Parmenides and Republic, Plato20. Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction, D.M. Armstrong21. Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals, David Lewis22. On the Elements of Being: I, Donald C. Williams23. Causality and Properties, Sydney ShoemakerPart V. Necessity24. Selection from Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke25. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis26. Actualism and Possible Worlds, Alvin Plantinga27. Selection from A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility, D.M. ArmstrongPart VI. Causation28. Selection from Metaphysics, Aristotle29. Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume30. Causation, David Lewis31. Causal Relations, Donald Davidson32. Selections from The Facts of Causation, D.H. MellorPart VII. Time and Space33. Selection from Physics, Aristotle34. Selection from The Nature of Existence, J.M.E McTaggart35. Changes in Events and Changes in Things, Arthur N. Prior36. Selection from Asymmetries in Time, Paul Horwich37. Selection from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence38. The Space-Time World, J.J.C. Smart39. The Paradoxes of Time Travel, David LewisPart VIII. Identity40. Identity through Time, Roderick M. Chisholm41. Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds, David Lewis42. Personal Identity, Derek Parfit43. Persons, Animals, and Ourselves, P.F. SnowdonPart IX. Mind and Body44. Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes45. Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances, G.W. Leibniz46. Selections from Thought, Gilbert Harman47. Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications, David Lewis48. Selection from Thinking Causes, Donald Davidson49. What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas NagelX. Freedom and Determinism50. Selection from Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume51. Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person, Harry Frankfurt52. The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism, Peter van Inwagen53. Selection from Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will, Barry Loewer54. Human Freedom and the Self, Roderick M. ChisholmReferencesIndex