A Survey of Metaphysics
E. J. Lowe, "A Survey of Metaphysics"
English | ISBN: 0198752539 | 2002 | 416 pages | PDF | 12 MB
English | ISBN: 0198752539 | 2002 | 416 pages | PDF | 12 MB
A systematic overview of modern metaphysics, A Survey of Metaphysics covers all of the most important topics in the field. It adopts the fairly traditional conception of metaphysics as a subject that deals with the deepest questions that can be raised concerning the fundamental structure of reality as a whole. The book is divided into six main sections that address the following themes: identity and change, necessity and essence, causation, agency and events, space and time, and universals and particulars. It focuses on contemporary views and issues throughout, rather than on the history of metaphysics.
Read more