A Companion to Metaphysics - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0631172726 ISBN 13 : 9780631172727

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1994

Synopsis

A Companion to Metaphysics provides a survey of the whole of metaphysics and includes articles by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field. In more than 200 entries, the book provides exhaustive coverage of main topics and areas, positions, movements, concepts, distinctions, definitions, arguments, and historical and contemporary figures. Alphabetically arranged for easy reference, the entries reflect the most recent and sophisticated treatments of metaphysical topics, and supply extensive bibliographical information the Companion is a major reference source relevant to all branches of philosophy.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Since its publication over a decade ago, A Companion to Metaphysics has established itself as the leading one–volume reference resource in the field. This extended and revised new edition brings the Companion up to date. A new section of longer review essays focuses on the major topics that continue to have an abiding centrality for the field and which have seen significant developments in recent years, including Fictional Entities, Individuation, Persistence, Realism & Anti–realism about Abstract Entities, as well Causation, Freedom of the Will, the Mind/Body Problem, Modality, and Space & Time. In addition the central A–Z section, consisting of nearly three hundred entries, has been extended with new entries on emerging topics and major metaphysicians and the existing entries have been brought up to date where necessary.

Written by leading figures in the field and offering comprehensive coverage of both historical and contemporary metaphysics and from analytic and continental traditions, the entries in this extensively cross–referenced volume combine to form a complete and up to date reference guide for student and professional alike.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and a book entitled Supervenience and Mind (1993). He is Editor with Ernest Sosa of Blackwell Readings in Epistemology.

Ernest Sosa is Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University. With Jonathan Dancy he is also co–editor of another volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series, A Companion to Epistemology, and his other publication include Knowledge in Perspective.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631172726
• ISBN 13: 9780631172727
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 560
• Éditeur: Kim Jaegwon, Sosa Ernest
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible