Russell on Metaphysics : Selections from the Writings of Bertrand Russell

ISBN-13: 9780415277457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str.

Stephen Mumford; Bertrand Russell

Opis

Is the world of appearances the real world? Are there facts that exist independently of our minds? Are there vague objects?

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Idealism; Chapter 1 Greek Exercises; Chapter 2 On the Distinction Between the Psychological and Metaphysical Points of View; Chapter 3 The Free-Will Problem from an Idealist Standpoint; Chapter 4 The Dialectic of the Sciences; Chapter 5 Seems, Madam? Nay, it is; Part II Ontology (I); Chapter 6 The Principles of Mathematics; Chapter 7 The Existential Import of Propositions; Chapter 8 Three Letters to Meinong; Chapter 9 The Basis of Realism; Chapter 10 Analytic Realism; Chapter 11 The Philosophy of Logical Atomism; Part III Universals; Chapter 12 On the Relations of Universals and Part iculars; Chapter 13 The Problem of Universals; Part IV Causality and Laws; Chapter 14 On the Notion of Cause; Chapter 15 Causal Laws in Physics; Chapter 16 Physics and Metaphysics; Chapter 17 Causal Laws; Part V Ontology (II); Chapter 18 Vagueness; Chapter 19 Physics and Neutral Monism; Chapter 20 Language and Metaphysics; Chapter 21 The Principle of Individuation;

O autorze

Stephen Mumford is Reader in Metaphysics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham. He is author of Dispositions (1998) and various papers in metaphysics.