A Companion to Metaphysics

by Jaekwon Kim (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor), Gary S. Rosenkrantz (Editor)

Overview

Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Metaphysics 2nd Edition includes a section of detailed review essays from renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300.

• Includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries
• Features more than 30 all-new "A to Z" entries
• Offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned metaphysicians
• Provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for students and professionals alike

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405152983
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/13/2009
Series:	Blackwell Companions to Philosophy , #70
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	680
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

The Editors

Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and the books Supervenience and Mind (1993), Mind in a Physical World (1998), Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005), and Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edn. (2006). He is co-editor of Blackwell's Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edn. (2008).

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. With Jonathan Dancy he is also co-editor of another volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series: A Companion to Epistemology (1993); and, with Laurence BonJour, of Epistemic Justification (2003), a volume in the Blackwell Great Debates in Philosophy series. His other publications include Knowledge in Perspective (1991), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and Reflective Knowledge (2009).

Gary S. Rosenkrantz is Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A practicing metaphysician for more than 30 years, Professor Rosenkrantz's published books include Haecceity: An Ontological Essay (1993), and three works co-authored with Joshua Hoffman: Substance Among Other Categories (1994), Substance: Its Nature and Existence (1996), and The Divine Attributes (2002).

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii

Introduction xiii

Part I Extended Essays 1

Part II Metaphysics From A to Z 95

Index 637

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Almost since it first came into print, I have used the first edition of Metaphysics: An Anthology in upper level undergraduate metaphysics courses. I also use it whenever I teach a graduate survey of metaphysics. The second edition is not just new, but new and improved. And I intend to use it in future metaphysics courses.

 

-Trenton Merricks, University of Virginia

 

 

A thorough compilation of essential readings. Anyone seriously interested in contemporary analytic metaphysics needs to know these pieces. The nicely updated second edition adds papers foundational to the next generation of metaphysical research.

 

-Mark Heller, Syracuse University

 

 

The second edition of Metaphysics: An Anthology is a splendid update of the already-excellent first edition. Thirty new articles by well-known younger philosophers join recent classics to bring this comprehensive collection right up to the moment.

 

-Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

 

 

An outstanding collection of classic to contemporary essays on some of the most interesting topics in metaphysics. It would provide a great basis for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate course in metaphysics.

 

-Amie Thommasson, University of Miami

Editorial Reviews

An alphabetical guide to the branch of philosophy that inquires after the most fundamental nature of reality and being. In 264 signed entries that range from brief definitions of common terms to major discursive essays, the contributors, including some of the world's most distinguished metaphysicians, cover the main topics and areas, positions, movements, concepts, distinctions, arguments, and historical and contemporary figures. The entries conclude with substantial bibliographies. Thoroughly cross-referenced with a detailed index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"The Companion has a number of virtues that make it a useful resource for both students and professional philosophers. I must single out those {entries} on the continental philosophers and concepts as especially clearly written, non-jargony introductions. Many of the entries provided charming little arguments, or twists, on behalf of the author's already known positions. Indeed, this feature of the 'Companion' makes it of value even to the most advanced philosopher, already quite familiar with the topic." Alan Sidelle, The Philosophical Review

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