The Problem of Metaphysics - Couverture souple

MacKinnon, D

 
9780521110839: The Problem of Metaphysics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521110831 ISBN 13 : 9780521110839
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Metaphysics is usually taken to be that part of analytical philosophy which offers an account of the most basic and persuasive concepts we use, an inventory and analysis of such fundamental structural features of our world as existence, substance, change and quality. But there is a revisionary as well as a descriptive metaphysics. Some philosophers and theologians have sought to reach beyond these familiar conceptual categories and to extend the scope of human understanding and language. What sort of an intellectual enterprise would that be, and what sort of facts, truths or understanding could it yield? Professor MacKinnon devotes this book to a study of these questions - the nature and possibility of a revisionary metaphysics.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Metaphysics is usually taken to be that part of analytical philosophy which offers an account of the most basic and persuasive concepts we use, an inventory and analysis of such fundamental structural features of our world as existence, substance, change and quality. But there is a revisionary as well as a descriptive metaphysics. Some philosophers and theologians have sought to reach beyond these familiar conceptual categories and to extend the scope of human understanding and language. What sort of an intellectual enterprise would that be, and what sort of facts, truths or understanding could it yield? Professor MacKinnon devotes this book to a study of these questions - the nature and possibility of a revisionary metaphysics.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521110831
ISBN 13 
9780521110839
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
184
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ISBN 10 :  0521202752 ISBN 13 :  9780521202756
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1974
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