(Ebook) Metaphysics the key concepts 1st Edition by Helen Beebee, Nikk Effingham, Philip Goff ISBN 0203835255 9780203835258
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ISBN 10: 0203835255
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Author: Helen Beebee, Nikk Effingham, Philip Goff
‘Informative, accessible, and fun to read— this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics. I know of no other resource like it.’– Meghan Griffith, Davidson College, USA 'Marvellous! This book provides the very best place to start for students wanting to take the first step into understanding metaphysics.Undergraduates would do well to buy it and consult it regularly. The quality and clarity of the material are consistently high.' – Chris Daly, University of Manchester, UK Ever wondered about Gunk, Brains in a Vat or Frankfurt’s Nefarious Neurosurgeon? With complete explanations of these terms and more, Metaphysics: The Key Concepts is an accessible and engaging introduction to the most widely studied and challenging concepts in metaphysics. The authors clearly and lucidly define and discuss key terms and concepts, under the themes of: time particulars & universals realism & antirealism free will personal identity causation and laws. Arranged in an easy to use A-Z format, each concept is explored and illustrated with engaging and memorable examples, and accompanied by an up-to-date guide to further reading. Fully cross-referenced throughout, this remarkable reference guide is essential reading for students of philosophy and all those interested in the nature of reality.
(Ebook) Metaphysics the key concepts 1st Table of contents:
- INTRODUCTION
- What is metaphysics?
- How to use this book?
- METAPHYSICS
- ABSTRACT VS CONCRETE
- AGENT CAUSATION
- Criticisms of agent causation
- ALEPH
- ANALYSIS
- ANALYTIC VS SYNTHETIC TRUTHS
- ANCESTRAL RELATION
- ANIMALISM
- ANTI-CRITERIALISM
- ANTI-REALISM
- A POSTERIORI
- A PRIORI/A POSTERIORI
- ARISTOTLE
- ARMSTRONG, DAVID
- A-THEORY
- AUSTERE NOMINALISM
- BACKWARDS CAUSATION
- BEING
- BERKELEY, GEORGE
- BILKING ARGUMENT
- BODILY CONTINUITY
- BRADLEY’S REGRESS
- BRAINS IN A VAT
- B-THEORY
- BUNDLE THEORY OF THE SELF OR PERSON
- BUNDLE THEORY VS SUBSTANCE-ATTRIBUTE THEORY
- CANBERRA PLAN
- CARVING NATURE AT ITS JOINTS
- CATEGORICAL AND DISPOSITIONAL PROPERTIES
- CAUSAL RELATA
- CAUSATION AND LAWS
- CAUSATION BY ABSENCE
- CHANCE
- CLASS
- Nomenclature
- CLASS NOMINALISM
- COMMON SENSE
- COMPATIBILISM
- Frankfurt’s compatibilism
- Dennett’s compatibilism
- Fischer’s semicompatibilism
- CONCEPT
- CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS
- What is the point of conceptual analysis?
- CONCEPTUAL SCHEME
- CONCEPTUAL VS LOGICAL TRUTHS
- CONCRETE
- CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT
- CONTINGENT TRUTHS
- COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONAL
- COUNTERFACTUAL THEORY OF CAUSATION
- CRITERION OF ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT
- DETERMINABLES AND DETERMINATES
- DETERMINISM
- DIACHRONIC IDENTITY
- DIRECTION OF TIME
- DISPOSITIONAL PROPERTIES
- DRETSKE-TOOLEY-ARMSTRONG VIEW OF LAWS
- Some problems for DTA
- EMPIRICISM
- ENDURANTISM
- ESSENCE
- ETERNALISM
- Motivations
- Objections
- EVENT
- Reasons to believe in events
- Other metaphysical issues
- EXEMPLIFICATION
- EXISTENCE
- EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
- EXTRINSIC PROPERTIES
- FACTS
- FICTIONALISM
- Varieties of fictionalism
- FISSION
- FLOW OF TIME
- FORM AND MATTER
- FOUR-DIMENSIONALISM
- FRANKFURT’S NEFARIOUS NEUROSURGEON
- An incompatibilist response
- FRANKFURT-STYLE CASES
- FREE WILL
- FUSION, MEREOLOGICAL
- GEDANKENEXPERIMENT
- GENERAL CAUSAL SENTENCES
- GLOBAL REALISM
- GOD’S EYE VIEW
- GRANDFATHER PARADOX
- GROWING BLOCK THEORY
- Motivations
- Objections
- GUIDANCE CONTROL VS REGULATIVE CONTROL
- GUNK
- HAECCEITISM
- HARD DETERMINISM
- HOLES
- Anti-realism about holes
- Realism about holes
- HUME, DAVID
- HUMEANISM
- HUMEAN SUPERVENIENCE
- IDEALISM
- IDENTITY
- IDENTITY OF INDISCERNIBLES
- IDENTITY OVER TIME
- ILLUSION OF FREE WILL
- IMMANENT REALISM ABOUT UNIVERSALS
- IMPROPER PART
- INCOMPATIBILISM
- INDETERMINISM
- INDEXICAL
- INDISCERNIBILITY OF IDENTICALS
- INFINITY
- Classical themes
- Cantor
- INSTANTIATION
- INTRINSIC VS EXTRINSIC PROPERTIES
- INUS CONDITIONS
- KANT, IMMANUEL
- KRIPKE, SAUL
- LAW OF NATURE
- LEIBNIZ’S LAW
- LEWIS, DAVID
- LIBERTARIANISM
- Is there any evidence for libertarianism?
- LINGUISTIC FRAMEWORK
- LINGUISTIC TURN
- LOCKE, JOHN
- LOGICAL TRUTH
- MCTAGGART, J. M. E.
- MEINONGIANISM
- MEMORY THEORY
- MEREOLOGICAL FUSION
- MEREOLOGY
- Classical mereology
- Nomenclature
- METAMETAPHYSICS
- METAPHYSICAL REALISM
- MODALITY
- MODAL REALISM
- Genuine modal realism (GMR)
- Ersatz modal realism
- MOOREAN FACTS
- MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
- One concept of moral responsibility or two?
- Moral responsibility and reactive attitudes
- MOVING SPOTLIGHT THEORY OF TIME
- MULTIPLE OCCUPANCY THESIS
- NATURAL KINDS
- NATURAL LAW
- NATURAL NECESSITY
- NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
- NATURAL PROPERTY
- NECESSARY A POSTERIORI TRUTHS
- NECESSITY
- NECESSITY OF ORIGIN THESIS
- NEGATIVE FACTS
- NEURON DIAGRAM
- NEUROSCIENCE AND FREE WILL
- Objections to Libet
- NIHILISM
- NOMINALISM
- NON-EXISTENT OBJECTS
- NUMBERS
- OCKHAM’S RAZOR
- ONE-TO-ONE RELATION
- ONLY X AND Y PRINCIPLE
- ONTOLOGICAL COMMITMENT
- ONTOLOGY
- OSTRICH NOMINALISM
- OVERDETERMINATION
- OVERLAP
- PARAPHRASE
- PART
- PARTICIPATION
- PARTICULARS
- PARTICULARS AND UNIVERSALS
- PERDURANTISM
- Motivations
- The argument from temporary intrinsics
- The argument from coincidence
- Objections
- PERSISTENCE
- PERSONAL IDENTITY
- PHASE SORTAL
- PHENOMENALISM AND IDEALISM
- PLATONIC HEAVEN
- PLATONISM
- POINT PARTICLE
- POSSIBILIA
- POSSIBLE WORLDS
- Different types of modality
- Some questions about possible worlds
- POSSIBILITY
- POSTMODERNISM
- PRAGMATISM
- PRE-EMPTION
- PRESENTISM
- Motivations
- Objections
- PRIMARY AND SECONDARY QUALITIES
- PRIMITIVE
- PRINCIPLE OF ALTERNATE POSSIBILITIES (PAP)
- Weakening PAP
- Compatibilism and PAP
- PROBABILISTIC THEORIES OF CAUSATION
- PROBABILISTIC THEORIES OF CAUSATION (TYPE-LEVEL)
- PROBABILITY
- Metaphysical issues
- Nomenclature
- PROBLEM OF LUCK
- A solution to the problem of luck?
- PROCESS THEORIES OF CAUSATION
- PROPERTIES
- PROPER CLASS
- PROPER PART
- PROPOSITION
- PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTINUITY
- PSYCHOLOGISM
- QUASI-MEMORY/QUASI-STATES
- QUIDDITISM
- QUINE, W. V.
- RAMSEY–LEWIS VIEW OF LAWS
- What is the best theory?
- Problems for the Ramsey–Lewis view
- RATIONALISM
- REACTIVE ATTITUDES
- REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM
- Some arguments for anti-realism
- Some arguments for realism
- REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM (GLOBAL)
- REDUCTIONISM
- REDUNDANT CAUSATION
- REGULARITY THEORY OF CAUSATION
- REGULARITY THEORY OF LAWS OF NATURE
- REGULATIVE CONTROL
- RELATA
- propositions:
- RELATIVISM
- Varieties of relativism
- Relativism, truth and meaning
- Arguments for relativism
- RELATIVITY
- RESEMBLANCE NOMINALISM
- RESPONSE-DEPENDENCE
- SCEPTICISM
- SET
- SHIP OF THESEUS
- SIMPLE
- SIMPLE VIEW OF PERSONAL IDENTITY
- SINGLETON
- SINGULAR CAUSAL SENTENCES
- SINGULARISM
- SOFT DETERMINISM
- SORTALS
- SOURCE INCOMPATIBILISM
- SPARSE PROPERTY
- SPECIAL COMPOSITION QUESTION
- SPLIT BRAIN CASE
- STATES OF AFFAIRS
- SUBSISTENCE
- SUBSTANCE
- SUBSTANCE-ATTRIBUTE THEORY
- SUBSTRATUM
- SUM
- SUPERTASK
- SUPERVENIENCE
- SURVIVAL
- SYNCHRONIC IDENTITY
- SYNTHETIC TRUTHS
- TEMPORAL PARTS
- TEMPORARY INTRINSICS
- TENSED AND TENSELESS THEORIES OF TIME
- THEORETICAL VIRTUES
- THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
- TIME
- TIME TRAVEL
- TOKEN
- TOKEN-LEVEL CAUSATION
- TRANSITIVE CLOSURE
- TRANSITIVE RELATION
- TROPE THEORY
- TRUMPING
- TRUTH
- Deflationary views
- Truth as a substantive property
- Truth, realism and anti-realism
- TRUTHBEARERS
- TRUTH CONDITIONS
- TRUTHMAKERS
- TYPE-LEVEL CAUSATION
- TYPE AND TOKENS
- UNIVERSALISM
- UNIVERSALS
- Facts about resemblance
- Sentences with terms that seem to refer to general properties
- UNREALITY OF TIME
- UNRESTRICTED MEREOLOGICAL COMPOSITION
- ZENO
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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