Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes, and (2) Metaphysical Indeter...
Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject. This Fourth Edition is revised and updated and includes two new chapters on (1) Parts and Wholes, and (2) Metaphysical Indeterminacy or vagueness. This new edition also keeps the user-friendly format, the chapter overviews summarizing the main topics, concrete examples to clarify difficult concepts, annotated further reading at the end of each chapter, endnotes, and a full bibliography.
作者简介
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Michael J. Loux is Shuster Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is also editor of Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, designed to accompany this textbook and also published by Routledge. His book Substance and Attribute (1978) is one of the major metaphysics books of recent years.
Thomas M. Crisp is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Depart...
Michael J. Loux is Shuster Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is also editor of Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, designed to accompany this textbook and also published by Routledge. His book Substance and Attribute (1978) is one of the major metaphysics books of recent years.
Thomas M. Crisp is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Biola University. He has published widely on topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion.
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Topics addressed include:
the problem of universals
the nature of abstract entities
the problem of individuation
the nature of modality
identity through time
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Topics addressed include:
the problem of universals
the nature of abstract entities
the problem of individuation
the nature of modality
identity through time
the nature of time
the nature of parts and wholes
the problem of metaphysical indeterminacy
the Realism/anti-Realism debate.
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But Aristotle is not satisfied to describe metaphysics as the investigation of first causes. He also tells us that it is the science that studies being qua being. As this characterization gets fleshed out, metaphysics turns out to be not another departmental discipline with a special subject matter of its own. It is rather a universal science, one that considers all the objects that there are. On this characterization, then, metaphysics examines the items that constitute the subject matter for the other sciences. What is distinctive about metaphysics is the way in which it examines those objects; it examines them from a particular perspective, from the perspective of their being beings or things that exist. So metaphysics considers things as beings or as existents and attempts to specify t... (查看原文)
If the conceptual schemer is correct in claiming that the activity of conceptual representation bars us from an apprehension of anything we seek to represent, then why should we take seriously the schemer’s claims about conceptual representation? Those claims, after all, are just further conceptual representations; but, then, so far from revealing the nature of the activity of conceptual representation, the claims would seem to preclude our getting a hold on what those claims are supposed to be about – the activity of conceptual representation. (查看原文)
0 有用 爱做梦的forêt 2023-12-12 17:04:55 上海
真正意义上的走入哲学应该是从这里开始的，但我不太喜欢分析形而上学的讨论方式，好像到最后就是看这个理论符不符合直觉，我愿不愿意接受了。
0 有用 霏 2020-04-02 23:18:12
特牛批 无论哪个学科 自然的、人文的、社会的 学理论的都应该最根基学起 值得抱几年慢慢消化吸收
0 有用 務光 2020-12-27 21:11:57
缺点是材料有些“陈旧”（指21世纪前
0 有用 PsychoBlower 2023-11-03 09:58:59 广东
好老
0 有用 Isijinn 2021-12-14 23:05:18
适合俺这样的入门者，共相问题讨论得尤其清晰深入，至于因果 时间等领域就十分简略了
0 有用 朝彻彻 2023-12-22 12:45:40 湖南
也是读过忘了，中文都秒忘何况英文
0 有用 爱做梦的forêt 2023-12-12 17:04:55 上海
真正意义上的走入哲学应该是从这里开始的，但我不太喜欢分析形而上学的讨论方式，好像到最后就是看这个理论符不符合直觉，我愿不愿意接受了。
0 有用 PsychoBlower 2023-11-03 09:58:59 广东
好老
0 有用 当时环佩留清响 2022-12-16 07:10:34 美国
没有讲metaphysical relations和structuralism的部分差评，有点老。mereology、necessity and possibility、causation也讲得很粗略
0 有用 Isijinn 2021-12-14 23:05:18
适合俺这样的入门者，共相问题讨论得尤其清晰深入，至于因果 时间等领域就十分简略了