Metaphysics: The Basics

Michael Rea (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

238 Seiten

2020 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-13607-9 (ISBN)

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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 it is an ideal introduction for those coming to the subject for the first time.

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.

Michael Rea is Rev. John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and Professorial Fellow in the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has written or edited more than fifteen books, and has given numerous lectures around the world, including the 2017 Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews.

1. Introduction 2. Things that don’t exist 3. Abstract objects 4. Possible worlds 5. Time 6. Time travel 7. Substance 8. Things and their parts 9. Change and identity 10. Freedom 11. Social metaphysics—gender 12. Metaphysics and its critics. Glossary Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Basics
Zusatzinfo	2 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-367-13607-4 / 0367136074
ISBN-13	978-0-367-13607-9 / 9780367136079
Zustand	Neuware