Metaphysics: The Fundamentals

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics.

• Presents an accessible, up-to-date and broad-ranging survey of one of the most dynamic and often daunting sub-fields in contemporary philosophy
• Introduces readers to the seminal works of contemporary and historic philosophers, including Descartes, Leibniz, Russell, David Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, Kit Fine, Peter van Inwagen, John Hawthorne and many others
• Explores key questions while identifying important assumptions, axioms, and methodological principles
• Addresses topics in ontology, modality, causality, and universals; as well as issues surrounding material composition, persistence, space, and time

Author: Robert C. Koons, Timothy Pickavance
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 01/20/2015
Series: Fundamentals of Philosophy
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781405195737