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Zusatztext 'E. J. Lowe, one of the UK's leading metaphysicians, has written a superb introduction to metaphysics. ... Lowe's book is the best introduction to metaphysics available.' THES Informationen zum Autor E.J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at University of Durham Klappentext A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, A Survey of Metaphysics covers all of the most important topics in the field. It adopts the fairly traditional conception of metaphysics as a subject that deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main sections that address the following themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. It focuses on contemporary views and issues throughout, rather than on the history of metaphysics. Zusammenfassung A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics in the subject likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The emphasis is on contemporary views and issues rather than on the history of metaphysics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: The nature of metaphysics Part I 2: Identity over time and change of composition 3: Qualitative change and the doctrine of temporal parts 4: Substantial change and spatiotemporal coincidence Part II 5: Necessity and identity 6: Essentialism 7: Possible worlds Part III 8: Conterfactual conditionals 9: Causes and conditions 10: Conterfactuals and event causation Part IV 11: Event causation and agent causation 12: Actions and Events 13: Events, things, and space-time Part V 14: Absolutism versus relationalism 15: Incongruent conterparts and the nature of space 16: The paradoxes of motion and the possibility of change 17: Tense and the reality of time 18: Causation and the direction of time Part VI 19: Realism versus nominalism 20: The abstract and the concrete ...
