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9781557867285: Beginning Metaphysics: An Introductory Text With Readings
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ISBN 10 : 1557867283 ISBN 13 : 9781557867285
Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1998

Synopsis

This flexible textbook is both an introduction and a reader in metaphysics combining original discussion with selections from primary sources. This text shows that important social, political and moral concerns involve metaphysical questions and that important metaphysical positions have practical implications. It discusses major metaphysical topics such as God, Freedom, Mind, Causality, Value, and Universals as well as important historical and contemporary critiques of metaphysics. Each chapter is followed by selections from classic and contemporary texts, allowing for in-depth study of primary sources.

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À propos de l?auteur

Heimir Geirsson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He is the co-editor, with Michael Losonsky, of Readings in Language and Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1996) and has published on philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and epistemology in Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Erkenntnis, and Journal of Philosophical Research. Michael Losonsky is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is the co-editor, with Heimir Geirsson, of Readings in Language and Mind (Blackwell Publishers, 1996). He has published on contemporary metaphysics in American Philosophical Quarterly, Minds and Machines, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy, amongst others. He has also published on metaphysics in the history of modern philosophy in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Pragmatics and Cognition, among others.

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Éditeur
Blackwell Publishers
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1557867283
ISBN 13 
9781557867285
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
512
Éditeur
Geirsson Heimir, Losonsky Michael
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1557867291 ISBN 13 :  9781557867292
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 1998
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