Metaphysics

ISBN-13: 9781032409153 / Miękka / 2024 / 370 str.

Peter van Inwagen

Opis

This book is an introduction to metaphysics and it presupposes no previous acquaintance with philosophy. Updates include extensive rewriting of the chapter on time, enhanced clarity throughout the text, updatd notes and suggested reading throughout.

Spis treści

Preface to the Fifth Edition  1. Introduction  Part I: The Way the World is  2. Individuality  3. Externality  4. Temporality  5. Objectivity  Part II: Why the World is  6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument  7. Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument  Part III: The Inhabitants of the World  8. What Rational Beings Are There?  9. The Place of Rational beings in the World: Design and Purpose  10. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism  11. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity  12. The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will  13. Concluding Meditation  Coda: Being

O autorze

Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and research professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of An Essay on Free Will (1983), Material Beings (1990), Being: A Study in Ontology (2022), and seven other books. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Gifford Lecturer, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews.