With thoughtful and engaging prose, noted scholar Peter van Inwagen provides a comprehensive introduction to metaphysics in this essential text. Metaphysics covers the gamut of historical and contemporary arguments of metaphysics, engaging readers through three profound questions: What are the most general features of the world? Why is there a world? And, what is the place of h...
With thoughtful and engaging prose, noted scholar Peter van Inwagen provides a comprehensive introduction to metaphysics in this essential text. Metaphysics covers the gamut of historical and contemporary arguments of metaphysics, engaging readers through three profound questions: What are the most general features of the world? Why is there a world? And, what is the place of human beings in the world?
The thoroughly revised fourth edition includes an updated and rewritten chapter on temporality and significant improvements to the clarity and accessibility of the language, making it an even more valuable text for undergraduate students. Metaphysics remains the quintessential book in this field of study, and a fascinating book for a wide range of readers, from those new to the subject to the most sophisticated philosophers.
作者简介
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Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O’Hara professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of numerous works, Material Beings (1990), Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics (2001), Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil (2004), Persons: Human and Divine (2008), and Existence: Essay...
Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O’Hara professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of numerous works, Material Beings (1990), Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics (2001), Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil (2004), Persons: Human and Divine (2008), and Existence: Essays in Ontology (2014).
目录
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Preface to the Fourth Edition
1.Introduction
Part One: The Way the World Is
2.Individuality
3.Externality
4.Temporality
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Preface to the Fourth Edition
1.Introduction
Part One: The Way the World Is
2.Individuality
3.Externality
4.Temporality
5.Objectivity
Part Two: Why the World Is
6.Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
7.Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument
Part Three: The Inhabitants of the World
8.What Rational Beings Are There?
9.The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose
10.The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism
11.The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity
12.The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will
13.Concluding Meditation
14.Coda: Being
Bibliography
Index
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我们希望能够回答但却无法回答的关于始基的最重要问题可以表述如下：始基是混沌（Chaos）还是逻格斯（Logos）？我们已经遇到了“混沌”这个词。希腊词“逻格斯”通常翻译为“道”（Word）一不是在语言的基本单元的意义上而是在“说话者所说出的东西”的意义上，如有“道”传给国王说一或是“理性”。（我选择用“逻格斯”是因为在约输福音的一开始“始基”和“逻格斯”是彼此关联的：“太初（始基）有道（逻格斯），…道即上帝。”["In the beginning （arche）was the Word（logos），and…the Word was God。”]这个问题是对于始基所能问的最重要的问题，因为我们的存在是否有意义或目的取决于这个问题：如果始基是混沌，我们的存在就没有意义，如果始基是逻格斯，我们的存在就有意义。如果始基是混沌，我们就只是偶尔发生的事物之一。如果始基是逻格斯，我们就为了一个目的而存在，这是任何事物的存在具有一个“意义”的惟一含义。（值得重复的是我们并不能从我们为了一个目的而存在这个假设推出我们能发现那个目的，或是我们能理解那个目的，或是如果我们知道了它是什么我们就会喜欢它。） (查看原文)
Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive informatio...Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive information from philosophy class. The only thing we are sure of in which is what philosophers said in the past. Is pursuing a specific answer possible?(展开)
不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦...不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦论或者正在寻找的GUTs。尽管科学或许只能解决世界何以为是的问题，至于why there is something instead of nothing, 科学回答不了，貌似形而上学也回答不了(展开)
Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive informatio...Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive information from philosophy class. The only thing we are sure of in which is what philosophers said in the past. Is pursuing a specific answer possible?(展开)
不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦...不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦论或者正在寻找的GUTs。尽管科学或许只能解决世界何以为是的问题，至于why there is something instead of nothing, 科学回答不了，貌似形而上学也回答不了(展开)
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北京大学出版社2007版
0 有用 φαρμακον 2022-09-19 16:34:25 江苏
Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive informatio... Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive information from philosophy class. The only thing we are sure of in which is what philosophers said in the past. Is pursuing a specific answer possible? (展开)
0 有用 六合均炁 2023-08-07 03:26:08 宁夏
i would say not that inspiring compared to some other introductory books (love from a Ney-fan)()
0 有用 然依骆 2020-07-23 06:44:00
不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦... 不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦论或者正在寻找的GUTs。尽管科学或许只能解决世界何以为是的问题，至于why there is something instead of nothing, 科学回答不了，貌似形而上学也回答不了 (展开)
0 有用 Olafisaac 2020-03-10 12:44:59
#20-018
0 有用 Pacifica 2021-07-07 14:24:34
张子夏用的教材
0 有用 六合均炁 2023-08-07 03:26:08 宁夏
i would say not that inspiring compared to some other introductory books (love from a Ney-fan)()
0 有用 φαρμακον 2022-09-19 16:34:25 江苏
Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive informatio... Great structure with illuminating explanations about three questions: what the world is? what is the world like? How can we exist in the world? Van Inwagen claims that we cannot get factive information from philosophy class. The only thing we are sure of in which is what philosophers said in the past. Is pursuing a specific answer possible? (展开)
0 有用 封豨 2022-09-10 16:02:54 福建
比中文版清晰简明得多，补充了不少内容，比如时间论里的“现在主义”的讨论，对照阅读，可以一看。
0 有用 Pacifica 2021-07-07 14:24:34
张子夏用的教材
0 有用 然依骆 2020-07-23 06:44:00
不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦... 不错的导论，整本书的结构也很有意思，不过对metaphysics关注的议题和论证我真的无感...fine tuning一章作者貌似对概率论的理解也不太恰当，先验概率是不用assume there're a vast number of cosmoi的；后面的心灵哲学的本体论相关问题或许是因为篇幅限制也没有讨论脑科学发展所带来的perspective。对于存在的问题我一直对科学抱有期待，量子场论，弦论或者正在寻找的GUTs。尽管科学或许只能解决世界何以为是的问题，至于why there is something instead of nothing, 科学回答不了，貌似形而上学也回答不了 (展开)