Lowe, E. J.
Survey of metaphysics A survey of metaphysics E.J. Lowe. - Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2002. - xiii, 402 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
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
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
0198752539
2002280736
Metaphysics
110 Low 7
Survey of metaphysics A survey of metaphysics E.J. Lowe. - Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2002. - xiii, 402 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
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
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
0198752539
2002280736
Metaphysics
110 Low 7