This essential core text introduces readers to metaphysics. In thoughtful and engaging prose, Peter van Inwagen examines three profound questions: What are the most general features of the world? Why
Externalism, Naturalism, Mathematics, Ontology, Personal Identity, Time and Tense, The Metaphysics of Reference, The Metaphysics of Properties, Conceivability, The Physical, and Theoretical Identity,
Insights from international philosophers on a range of societal issues Metaphysics is Volume 10 of the Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume, presenting the major papers delivered at the 1999 SOFIA
Jerrold J. Katz offers a radical reappraisal of the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century philosophy. He shows that the naturalism that emerged to become the dominant philosophical position was never
This volume is a comprehensive survey of contemporary thought on a wide range of issues and provides students with the basic background to current debates in metaphysics.
This groundbreaking study aims to provide a philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of terror, in particular the political reactions to it, such as public anxiety and pre-emptive wars, and to re-arti
It’s the 21st century, and we’ve experienced a technology explosion that has granted us a cornucopia of luxuries and opportunities. At this point, virtually anything seems possible. However, along wit
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa?from a co-executive producer of The Big Bang Theory, the #1 sitcom on television Metaphysics isn’t ordinarily much of a laughing mat
The work of American pragmatist George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a strong influence in fields ranging from metaphysics and ethics to sociology and social psychology. In this book, Hans Joas interw
This investigation on the borderlines of metaphysics, everyday geometry and the theory of perception seeks to answer two basic questions: Do holes really exist? If they do, what are they? Holes are am
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METAPHYSICS is one of the principal works of Aristotle and the first major work of the branch of philosophy with the same name. The principal subject is "being qua being"， or being understood as being
從形上學的發展觀點來看，亞里斯多德當年對於他的形上學著作所賦予的名稱是「第一哲學」(prote philosophia)和「神學」(theologike)，至於「形上學」(Metaphysics)的名稱是安德羅尼古斯(Andronicus of Rhodes)所創。根據亞里斯多德的原意，稱之為「第一哲學」意味著它探究萬物的第一原因，而且它也是最為重要故稱「第一」。另外稱之「神學」因為它最終要探究上
