{"product_id":"metaphysics-isbn-9781444331011","title":"Metaphysics","description":"Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects. \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eOne of the most comprehensive and authoritative metaphysics anthologies available – now updated and expanded\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers the most important contemporary works on the central issues of metaphysics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects, as well as readings on the topics of fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity, temporary intrinsics, stage theory, and composition\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurpasses other anthologies in its combination of contributions from leading metaphysicians and a younger generation of \"rising-stars\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface (\u003ci\u003eJaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa, Daniel Z. Korman\u003c\/i\u003e).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Ontology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. \"On What There Is\" (\u003ci\u003eW. V. Quine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. \"Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology\" (\u003ci\u003eRudolf Carnap\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \"Holes\" (\u003ci\u003eDavid and Stephanie Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \"Beyond Being and Nonbeing\" (\u003ci\u003eRoderick M. Chisholm\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. \"Does Ontology Rest on a Mistake?\" (\u003ci\u003eStephen Yablo\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. \"Fictional Objects\" (\u003ci\u003eAmie L. Thomasson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. \"On What Grounds What\" (\u003ci\u003eJonathan Schaffer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. \"The Identity of Indiscernibles\" (\u003ci\u003eMax Black\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. \"Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity\" (\u003ci\u003eRobert M. Adams\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. \"Identity and Necessity\" (\u003ci\u003eSaul Kripke\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. \"Contingent Identity\" (\u003ci\u003eAllan Gibbard\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. \"Can There Be Vague Objects?\" (\u003ci\u003eGareth Evans\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. \"Vague Identity\" (\u003ci\u003eRobert C. Stalnaker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Modality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. \"Modalities: Basic Concepts and Distinctions\" (\u003ci\u003eAlvin Plantinga\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. \"Actualism and Thisness\" (\u003ci\u003eRobert M. Adams\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. \"A Philosopher's Paradise: The Plurality of Worlds\" (\u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. \"Possible Worlds\" (\u003ci\u003eRobert C. Stalnaker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. \"Modal Fictionalism\" (\u003ci\u003eGideon Rosen\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. \"Essence and Modality\" (\u003ci\u003eKit Fine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Properties.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. \"Natural Kinds\" (\u003ci\u003eW. V. Quine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. \"Causality and Properties\" (\u003ci\u003eSydney Shoemaker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. \"The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars\" (\u003ci\u003eKeith Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. \"New Work for a Theory of Universals\" (\u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. \"Universals as Attributes\" (\u003ci\u003eD. M. Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Causation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. \"On the Notion of Cause\" (\u003ci\u003eBertrand Russell\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. \"Causes and Conditions\" (\u003ci\u003eJ.L. Mackie\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. \"Causal Relations\" (\u003ci\u003eDonald Davidson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. \"Causality and Determination\" (\u003ci\u003eG.E.M. Anscombe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. \"Causation\" (\u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. \"Causal Connections\" (\u003ci\u003eWesley C. Salmon\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. \"Causation: Reductionism Versus Realism\" (\u003ci\u003eMichael Tooley\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. \"Two Concepts of Causation\" (\u003ci\u003eNed Hall\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Persistence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33. \"Identity Through Time\" (\u003ci\u003eRoderick M. Chisholm\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34. \"Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis\" (\u003ci\u003eW. V. Quine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35. \"Parthood and Identity Across Time\" (\u003ci\u003eJudith Jarvis Thomson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36. \"Temporal Parts of Four-Dimensional Objects\" (\u003ci\u003eMark Heller\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37. \"The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics\" (\u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38. \"Endurance and Temporary Intrinsics\" (\u003ci\u003eSally Haslanger\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39. \"All the World's a Stage\" (\u003ci\u003eTheodore Sider\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Persons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40. \"Persons and Their Pasts\" (\u003ci\u003eSydney Shoemaker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41. \"The Self and the Future\" (\u003ci\u003eBernard Williams\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42. \"Personal Identity\" (\u003ci\u003eDerek Parfit\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43. \"Survival and Identity\" (\u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44. \"Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism\" (\u003ci\u003eJaegwon Kim\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45. \"The Ontological Status of Persons\" (\u003ci\u003eLynne Rudder Baker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46. \"An Argument for Animalism\" (\u003ci\u003eEric T. Olson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Objects.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47. \"When are Objects Parts?\" (\u003ci\u003ePeter van Inwagen\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48. \"Many But Almost One\" (\u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49. \"Existential Relativity\" (\u003ci\u003eErnest Sosa\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50. \"The Argument from Vagueness\" (\u003ci\u003eTheodore Sider\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51. \"Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism\" (\u003ci\u003eTrenton Merricks\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52. \"Against Revisionary Ontology\" (\u003ci\u003eEli Hirsch\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53. \"Strange Kinds, Familiar Kinds, and the Charge of Arbitrariness\" (\u003ci\u003eDaniel Z. Korman\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eJaegwon Kim\u003c\/b\u003e is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers on metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSupervenience and Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eMind in a Physical World\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003ePhysicalism, or Something Near Enough\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and \u003ci\u003eEssays in the Metaphysics of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and the co-editor of Blackwell's \u003ci\u003eEpistemology: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, second edition (2008).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnest Sosa\u003c\/b\u003e taught from 1964 to 2007 at Brown University, and is currently Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Among his books are \u003ci\u003eKnowledge in Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eEpistemic Justification\u003c\/i\u003e (with Laurence BonJour; Blackwell, 2003), \u003ci\u003eA Virtue Epistemology\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eReflective Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and \u003ci\u003eKnowing Full Well\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He is also co-editor of Blackwell's \u003ci\u003eEpistemology: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, second edition (2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Korman\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in metaphysics and has published articles in \u003ci\u003eOxford Studies in Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNoûs\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  Thoroughly updated, this second edition of the highly successful \u003ci\u003eMetaphysics: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. With greater coverage, it includes expanded section introductions, and has been designed for even wider accessibility to students, providing the ideal platform for course use.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIn addition to retaining material from the first edition on the topics central to the field, this new edition offers greater coverage of selected subjects, including fictionalism, fundamentality, tropes, vague identity, temporary intrinsics, stage theory, composition, personal identity, and the nature of possible worlds, and entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989614018789,"sku":"NP9781444331011","price":87.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781444331011.jpg?v=1761784813","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/metaphysics-isbn-9781444331011","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}