Metaphysics
Douban
A Contemporary Introduction
Michael J. Loux / Thomas M. Crisp
overview
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.
contents
Introduction
1. The Problem of Universals I: Metaphysical Realism
2. The Problem of Universals II: Nominalism
3. Concrete Particulars I: Substrata, Bundles and Substances
4. Propositions and their Neighbors
5. The Necessary and the Possible
6. Causation
7. The Nature of Time
8. Concrete Particulars II: Persistence through Time
9. Concrete Particulars III: Parts and Wholes
10. Metaphysical Indeterminancy
11. The Challenge of Anti-Realism
Bibliography
Index
