A Companion to Metaphysics (eBook)

Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, Gary S. Rosenkrantz (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2. Auflage
680 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-0853-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Metaphysics 2nd
Edition includes a section of detailed review essays from
renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new
encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300.

* Includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries

* Features more than 30 all-new "A to Z" entries

* Offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned
metaphysicians

* Provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for
students and professionals alike

Autor

The Editors Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and the books Supervenience and Mind (1993), Mind in a Physical World (1998), Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005), and Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edn. (2006). He is co-editor of Blackwell's Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edn. (2008). Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. With Jonathan Dancy he is also co-editor of another volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series: A Companion to Epistemology (1993); and, with Laurence BonJour, of Epistemic Justification (2003), a volume in the Blackwell Great Debates in Philosophy series. His other publications include Knowledge in Perspective (1991), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and Reflective Knowledge (2009). Gary S. Rosenkrantz is Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A practicing metaphysician for more than 30 years, Professor Rosenkrantz's published books include Haecceity: An Ontological Essay (1993), and three works co-authored with Joshua Hoffman: Substance Among Other Categories (1994), Substance: Its Nature and Existence (1996), and The Divine Attributes (2002).

Inhalt

List of Contributors vii

Introduction xiii

Part I Extended Essays 1

Part II Metaphysics From A to Z 95

Index 637

Rezensionen

?This is a resource no metaphysician in the Anglo-American
tradition will want to do without. Summing Up: Essential.?
(CHOICE, October 2009)

Almost since it first came into print, I have used the first
edition of Metaphysics: An Anthology in upper level
undergraduate metaphysics courses. I also use it whenever I teach a
graduate survey of metaphysics. The second edition is not just new,
but new and improved. And I intend to use it in future metaphysics
courses.





-Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia





A thorough compilation of essential readings. Anyone seriously
interested in contemporary analytic metaphysics needs to know these
pieces. The nicely updated second edition adds papers foundational
to the next generation of metaphysical research.



-Mark Heller, Syracuse University





The second edition of Metaphysics: An
Anthology is a splendid update of the
already-excellent first edition. Thirty new articles by well-known
younger philosophers join recent classics to bring this
comprehensive collection right up to the moment.



-Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts - Amherst





An outstanding collection of classic to contemporary essays on
some of the most interesting topics in metaphysics. It would
provide a great basis for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate
course in metaphysics.



-Amie Thommasson, University of Miami

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Schlagworte: Metaphysics • Metaphysik • Philosophie • Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-0853-X / 144430853X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-0853-2 / 9781444308532