A Companion to Metaphysics

by Jaekwon Kim (Editor), Ernest Sosa (Editor)

Overview

A Companion to Metaphysics provides a survey of the whole of metaphysics and includes articles by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631199991
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/30/1996
Series:	Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.35(d)

About the Author

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 a book entitled Supervenience and Mind (1993). He is Editor with Ernest Sosa of Blackwell Readings in Epistemology.

Ernest Sosa is Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University. With Jonathan Dancy he is also co-editor of another volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series, A Companion to Epistemology, and his other publication include Knowledge in Perspective.

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors.

Introduction.

A Companion to Metaphysics.

Index.

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)

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?This is a resource no metaphysician in the Anglo-American tradition will want to do without. Summing Up: Essential.? (CHOICE, October 2009)

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