Companion to Metaphysics

Jihyun Kim (Autor)

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680 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Hersteller)
978-1-4051-8488-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Since its first publication, A Companion to Metaphysics has established itself as the leading one-volume reference resource in the field. This extended and revised new edition brings the Companion up to date. A new section of longer review essays focuses on the major topics that continue to have an abiding centrality for the field and which have seen significant developments in recent years, including Fictional Entities, Individuation, Persistence, Realism & Anti-realism about Abstract Entities, as well Causation, Freedom of the Will, the Mind/Body Problem, Modality, and Space & Time. In addition the central A-Z section, consisting of nearly three hundred entries, has been extended with new entries on emerging topics and major metaphysicians, and the existing entries have been brought up to date where necessary. Written by leading figures in the field and offering comprehensive coverage of both historical and contemporary metaphysics and from analytic and continental traditions, the entries in this extensively cross-referenced volume combine to form a complete and up to date reference guide for student and professional alike.

Autor

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. Introduction. Part I: Extended Essays. Part II: Metaphysics from A to Z. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Verlagsort: Chicester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 179 x 258 mm
• Gewicht: 1322 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-8488-4 / 1405184884
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-8488-5 / 9781405184885
• Zustand: Neuware