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Metaphysics: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to
the philosophical study of some of the most important and
foundational aspects of the world in which we live. Concerned with
questions about existence, time, identity, change, and other basic
elements of our common-sense and scientific ways of thinking about
the world, metaphysics has long fascinated people. But to the
uninitiated, many of the issues and problems can appear
bewilderingly complex and intractable. In this lively and lucid
book, Michael Rea examines and explains the core questions in the
study of metaphysics-questions such as: What is the relationship
between an object and its properties, or between an object and its
parts? What is time, and is time travel possible? Are human beings
free? What is it for an object or person to persist over time? This
second edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a new
chapter on the metaphysics of gender. With suggestions for further
reading and a glossary of key terms, Metaphysics: The Basics is an
ideal introduction for those coming to the subject for the first
time.
In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the
University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of
Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading
figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of
religion. Plantinga has earned particular respect within the
community of Christian philosophers for the pivotal role that he
played in the recent renewal and development of philosophy of
religion and philosophical theology. Each of the essays in this
volume engages with some particular aspect of Plantinga's views on
metaphysics, epistemology, or philosophy of religion. Contributors
include Michael Bergman, Ernest Sosa, Trenton Merricks, Richard
Otte, Peter VanInwagen, Thomas P. Flint, Eleonore Stump, Dean
Zimmerman and Nicholas Wolterstorff. The volume also includes
responses to each essay by Bas van Fraassen, Stephen Wykstra, David
VanderLaan, Robin Collins, Raymond VanArragon, E. J. Coffman,
Thomas Crisp, and Donald Smith.
Metaphysics: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to
the philosophical study of some of the most important and
foundational aspects of the world in which we live. Concerned with
questions about existence, time, identity, change, and other basic
elements of our common-sense and scientific ways of thinking about
the world, metaphysics has long fascinated people. But to the
uninitiated, many of the issues and problems can appear
bewilderingly complex and intractable. In this lively and lucid
book, Michael Rea examines and explains the core questions in the
study of metaphysics-questions such as: What is the relationship
between an object and its properties, or between an object and its
parts? What is time, and is time travel possible? Are human beings
free? What is it for an object or person to persist over time? This
second edition has been thoroughly revised and includes a new
chapter on the metaphysics of gender. With suggestions for further
reading and a glossary of key terms, Metaphysics: The Basics is an
ideal introduction for those coming to the subject for the first
time.
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Material Constitution - A Reader (Paperback)
Michael Rea; Contributions by Michael B Burke, Hugh S Chandler Roderick M Chisholm, Frederick C. Doepke, Peter T. Geach, …
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The only anthology available on material constitution, this book
collects important recent work on well known puzzles in metaphysics
and philosophy of mind. The extensive, clearly written introduction
helps to make the essays accessible to a wide audience.
Classical Christian orthodoxy insists that God is Triune: there is
only one God, but there are three divine Persons - Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit - who are somehow of one substance with one another.
But what does this doctrine mean? How can we coherently believe
that there is only one God if we also believe that there are three
divine Persons? This problem, sometimes called the
'threeness-oneness problem' or the 'logical problem of the
Trinity', is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume.
Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity includes a
selection of the most important recent philosophical work on this
topic, accompanied with a variety of compelling new essays by
philosophers and theologians to further the discussion. The book is
divided into four parts, the first three dealing in turn with the
three most prominent models for understanding the relations between
the Persons of the Trinity: Social Trinitarianism, Latin
Trinitarianism, and Relative Trinitarianism. Each section includes
essays by both proponents and critics of the relevant model. The
volume concludes with a section containing essays by theologians
reflecting on the current state of the debate.
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: AN ANTHOLOGY, 7E uses a balanced blend of
classic and contemporary articles to make the philosophy of
religion easy to understand. This engaging textbook begins by
outlining the traditional concepts of God, then moves into other
interesting topics, such as the problem of evil, feminist
perspectives of God, and mystical experiences. In addition,
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: AN ANTHOLOGY, 7E presents readers with both
the traditional proofs of God's existence, and the counter
arguments. This edition also discusses the interplay between
religion and science, religion and faith, and religion and
"knowing."
Metaphysics, at least roughly speaking, is the systematic
investigation of fundamental presuppositions underlying commonsense
and scientific views of the world. Most of us believe that we have
bodies and minds, that we are free, that some things in the world
are composed of other things and that these things interact
causally with one another; we believe that, in addition to the "way
things are", there are other ways things could have been, and so
on. Common sense tells us that things change and time passes, but
contemporary physics tells us (or seems to tell us) that past,
present, and future are somehow metaphysically on a par-that the
past isn't "gone" and the future is "already" real. Common sense
and science both take it for granted that the world is governed by
laws, and that the laws in some sense represent how things must go
in the world (as opposed simply to telling us how they in fact
happen to go). Metaphysicians investigate all of these assumptions,
and more. They ask what it is to be a body or a mind, and what the
relation between body and mind might be; they ask what freedom
consists in, and whether freedom is possible; they ask about the
nature and possibility of causation, change, and the passage of
time; they try to figure out what it takes to be a law of nature
and whether the laws of nature might be necessary or contingent;
and so on. This four-volume collection will gather together many of
the most important classic and contemporary writings on these and
other central topics in metaphysics. Unlike some of the other
collections in this series, the classic writings will not occupy
their own volume (or even their own section); rather, they will be
sprinkled throughout as appropriate to the topics under
consideration. Below is a tentative list of volume-titles, along
with select tentative section headings (to give some indication of
the topics that will be covered in each volume). Structure: Vol. I:
Foundations * Meta-Ontology * Propositions, States of Affairs, and
Events * Universals, Properties, and Kinds * Substances, Bundles,
and Substrata Vol. II: Metaphysics of Modality * Possible Worlds *
Actualism and Possibilism * Essentialism * Causation and Laws of
Nature * Reduction and Supervenience Vol. III: Time and Identity *
Time * Individuation * Composition and Material Constitution *
Change and Persistence * Realism, Anti-Realism, and Vagueness Vol.
IV: God and Persons * The Existence of God * Mind and Body *
Personhood and the Self * Fatalism, Determinism, and Free Agency
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