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Metaphysics: An Anthology
Jaegwon Kim
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Description for Metaphysics: An Anthology
Hardback. Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects. Editor(s): Kim, Jaegwon; Korman, Daniel Z.; Sosa, Ernest. Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Num Pages: 736 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 171 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.
- One of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available – now updated and expanded
- Offers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysics
- Includes new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects, as well as readings on the topics of fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity, temporary intrinsics, stage theory, and composition
- Surpasses other anthologies in its combination of contributions from leading metaphysicians and a younger generation of "rising-stars"
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444331011
SKU
V9781444331011
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About Jaegwon Kim
Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers on metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of Supervenience and Mind (1993), Mind in a Physical World (1998), Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005), and Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind (2010) and the co-editor of Blackwell's Epistemology: An Anthology, second edition (2008). Ernest Sosa taught from 1964 to 2007 at Brown University, and is currently Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Among his books are Knowledge in Perspective (1991), Epistemic Justification (with Laurence BonJour; Blackwell, 2003), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), Reflective Knowledge (2009), and Knowing Full Well (2010). He is also co-editor of Blackwell's Epistemology: An Anthology, second edition (2008). Daniel Korman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in metaphysics and has published articles in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Noûs, and the Journal of Philosophy.
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