Metaphysics

  • Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
    By Michael J. Loux, Thomas M. Crisp

    According to Davidson, there is a single event that can be described as my flipping the switch, my turning on the light, my frightening the cat, my exposing the filth in the room, and my providing illumination for your reading of the ...

  • Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials
    By Immanuel Kant, Alexander Baumgarten

    Together with a historical and philosophical introduction, extensive glossaries and notes, the text is supported by translations of Kant’s elucidations and notes, Eberhard’s insertions in the 1783 German edition and texts from the ...

  • Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
    By Michael J. Loux, Thomas M. Crisp

    Bergmann, G. (1954) The Metaphysics of Logical Positivism, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Bergmann, G. (1959) Meaning and ... Carnap, R. (1959) The Logical Syntax of Language, Paterson, NJ: Littlefield, Adams and Co.

  • Metaphysics: An Introduction
    By Jonathan Tallant

    In response to feedback from students and instructors, the Second Edition has been updated with new material in a range of chapters, including discussions of recent research concerning the nature of physical objects, time and modality.

  • Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy
    By Adrian Pabst

    Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990. Buchheim, Thomas, Corneille H. Kneepkens, and Kuno Lorenz, eds. Potentialität und Possibilität. Modalaussagen in der Geschichte der Metaphysik. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2001. Buckley, Michael.

  • Metaphysics
    By William Hasker

    For example , there can be no doubt that Lucy ( in the comic strip Peanuts ) is very conceited . If we were asked what Lucy's conceit is , we should probably be inclined to say that it is a mental property of Lucy .

  • Metaphysics: An Introduction
    By Jonathan Tallant

    'Reductive Theories of Modality', in M. J. Loux and D. W. Zimmerman, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 180–208. Sider, T. 2005. “Traveling in A- and B-time', Monist (Special Issue on Time Travel), ...

  • Metaphysics
    By D. W. Hamlyn

    It has been pointed out by Francis Dauer ?? that someone who replaced by stealth all the stones of a Parthenon with replicas and rebuilt the. 27 F. W. Dauer , ' How not to reidentify the Parthenon ' , Analysis , Vol . 33 , 1972 , pp .

  • Metaphysics
    By D. W. Hamlyn

    This book provides an introduction to metaphysics. At the outset Professor Hamlyn distinguishes two conceptions of metaphysics running through the history of the subject.

  • Metaphysics: Its Structure and Function
    By Stephan Körner

    This is an ambitious and substantial study of metaphysics: its nature and inescapability.

  • Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction
    By Stephen Mumford

    ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.

  • Metaphysics
    By Peter van Inwagen

    (Or, if some among us do know that there is a perfect being, or do know that there is no perfect being, this knowledge is certainly not common knowledge and is not, therefore, knowledge that we can appeal to in presenting a metaphysical ...

  • Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's Elucidations, Selected Notes, and Related Materials
    By Alexander Baumgarten

    §803 THE MOST PERFECT BEING isthat to which belongs the highest perfection among beings, i.e.that being in which as many and as great things agree as greatly with as many andas great thingsas can agree withthe most and the greatest of ...

  • Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
    By Michael Loux

    This third edition of the successful textbook provides a fresh look at key topics in metaphysics and includes two new chapters on time and causation.

  • Metaphysics: Books Z and H
    By Aristotle

    Joe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle's Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs's translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle's works, which are foundational to...

  • Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction
    By Stephen Mumford

    An introduction to metaphysics offers questions and answers covering such issues as properties, changes, time, personal identity, nothingness, and consciousness.

  • Metaphysics: Concept and Problems
    By Theodor W. Adorno

    This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics.

  • Metaphysics: The Fundamentals
    By Robert C. Koons, Timothy Pickavance

    The book covers a broad range of key topics, including theories of properties and particulars, the notion of truth-makers, powers and possibilities, material composition, and a variety of issues related to time and causation.

  • Metaphysics: The Classic Readings
    By David E. Cooper

    A comprehensive introduction by the editor, together with his preambles to each text, makes this an ideal volume for students on historically informed courses in metaphysics and the more speculative realms of philosophy.

  • Metaphysics: The Key Concepts
    By Helen Beebee, Philip Goff, Nikk Effingham

    ‘Informative, accessible, and fun to read— this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics.