Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History - Couverture rigide

Marmodoro, Anna; Mayr, Erasmus

 
9780190941611: Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0190941618 ISBN 13 : 9780190941611
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2019

Synopsis

This volume introduces readers to a selected number of core issues in metaphysics that have been central in the history of philosophy and remain foundational to contemporary debates, that is: substances; properties; modality and essence; causality; determinism and free will. Anna Marmodoro and Erasmus Mayr take a neo-Aristotelian approach both in the selection and presentation of the topics. But Marmodoro and Mayr's discussion is not narrowly partisan-it consistently presents opposing sides of the debate and addresses issues from different philosophical traditions, and encourages readers to draw their own conclusions about them.

Metaphysics combines a state-of-the-art presentation of the issues that takes into account the most recent developments in the field, with extensive references to the history of philosophy. The book thus makes topics in contemporary analytical metaphysics easily accessible to readers who have no specific background in contemporary philosophy, but rather in the history of philosophy. At the same time, it will engage readers who do not have any historical background with some key developments within the history of the subject.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anna Marmodoro holds the Chair of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University and she is concomitantly a Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College Oxford. Her major publications include Aristotle on Perceiving Objects (OUP 2014) and Everything in Everything: Anaxagoras's Metaphysics (OUP 2017).

Erasmus Mayr is Professor for Practical Philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. He is the author of Understanding Human Agency (OUP 2011).

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190941618
ISBN 13 
9780190941611
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
236
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9780190941628: Metaphysics: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates and Their History

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ISBN 10 :  0190941626 ISBN 13 :  9780190941628
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2019
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