Lowe, E. J.                <br/><br/>
Survey of metaphysics  
 A survey of metaphysics  
E.J. Lowe. 
 - Oxford   New York   Oxford University Press  2002. 
 - xiii, 402 p.   ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : the nature of metaphysics --  Identity over time and change of composition --  Qualitative change and the doctrine of temporal parts --  Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidence --  Necessity and identity --  Essentialism --  Possible worlds --  Counterfactual conditionals --  Causes and conditions --  Counterfactuals and event causation --  Event causation and agent causation --  Actions and events --  Events, things, and space-time --  Absolutism versus relationalism --  Incongruent counterparts and the nature of space --  paradoxes of motion and the possibility of change --  Tense and the reality of time --  Causation and the direction of time --  Realism versus nominalism --  abstract and the concrete.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  16. The  17.  18.  19.  20. The 
<br/><br/> A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0198752539 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002280736 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Metaphysics
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>110 Low   7