Essay on Metaphysics - Revised Edition With Introduction and Additional Material

Zusatztext Review from previous edition:skilfully-edited and handsomely-produced ... Nearly sixty years after its first publication An Essay on Metaphysics retains its philosophical value. Informationen zum Autor R. G. Collingwood was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1935 to 1941. Klappentext One of the great Oxford philosopher's finest works! Essay on Metaphysics considers the nature of philosophy! and puts forward Collingwood's original and influential theories of causation! presuppositions! and the logic of question and answer. This new edition includes three fascinating unpublished pieces that illuminate and amplify the Essay. Zusammenfassung First published in 1940, this is a broad-ranging work in which Collingwood considers the nature of philosophy, especially of metaphysics. He puts forward his well-known doctrine of absolute pre-suppositions, expounds a logic of question and answer, and gives an account of causation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Introduction Select Bibliography Author's Preface AN ESSAY ON METAPHYSICS (1940) Endnotes The Nature of Metaphysical Study (1934) The Function of Metaphysics in Civilization (1938) Notes for an Essay on Logic (1939) Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: R. G. Collingwood, R. G. ( Collingwood, R. G. ((deceased) Formerly Waynflete Collingwood, R.g. Collingwood, Collingwood R. G.
• Collaboration: Rex Martin (Editeur), Martin Rex (Editeur)
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 07.03.2002
• EAN: 9780199241415
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924141-5
• Pages: 548
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -