The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time
Lowe argues in this fascinating new study that metaphysics should be restored to centrality in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by identifying the categories of being and the relations between them. He then sets out his own metaphysical system, with which he seeks to answer many of the most vexed questions in philosophy.
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The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time
Lowe argues in this fascinating new study that metaphysics should be restored to centrality in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by identifying the categories of being and the relations between them. He then sets out his own metaphysical system, with which he seeks to answer many of the most vexed questions in philosophy.
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The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time

The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time

by E. J. Lowe
The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time

The Possibility of Metaphysics: Substance, Identity, and Time

by E. J. Lowe

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Lowe argues in this fascinating new study that metaphysics should be restored to centrality in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by identifying the categories of being and the relations between them. He then sets out his own metaphysical system, with which he seeks to answer many of the most vexed questions in philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198236832
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/10/1998
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile: 1630L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Durham

Table of Contents

1. The Possibility of Metaphysics2. Objects and Identity3. Identity and Unity4. Time and Persistence5. Persistence and Substance6. Substance and Dependence7. Primitive Substances8. Categories and Kinds9. Matter and Form10. Abstract Entities11. Facts and the World12. The Puzzle of ExistenceBibliographyIndex
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