Metaphysics
ISBN: 9780813343563 | 0813343569
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books
Pub. Date: 8/4/2008
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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 is there a world? And, what is the place of human beings in the world? The third edition includes an entirely new chapter on ontology. The new chapter presents a theory of the nature of being and proceeds to apply this theory to two problems of ontology: the problem of non-existent objects and the problem of universals. Equally valuable as a textbo... MORE
| Preface to the Third Edition | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Way the World is | p. 23 |
| Introduction | p. 23 |
| Individuality | p. 27 |
| Externality | p. 53 |
| Temporality | p. 71 |
| Objectivity | p. 93 |
| Why the World is | p. 109 |
| Introduction | p. 109 |
| Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument | p. 115 |
| Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument | p. 145 |
| The Inhabitants of the World | p. 169 |
| Introduction | p. 169 |
| What Rational Beings Are There? | p. 175 |
| The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose | p. 187 |
| The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicialism | p. 209 |
| The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity | p. 235 |
| The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will | p. 253 |
| Concluding Meditation | p. 273 |
| Coda: Being | p. 277 |
| Bibliography | p. 315 |
| Index | p. 319 |
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Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
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