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Survey of Metaphysics
E. J. Lowe
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Description for Survey of Metaphysics
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PDA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 630.
A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics 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 parts, each relatively self-contained, focusing in turn on the following major themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. In an introductory chapter, ... Read more
A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics 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 parts, each relatively self-contained, focusing in turn on the following major themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. In an introductory chapter, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198752530
SKU
V9780198752530
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About E. J. Lowe
E.J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at University of Durham
Reviews for Survey of Metaphysics
'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