Metaphysics
By: Peter van Inwagen
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780786744893
Subjects: PHILOSOPHY; Metaphysics
Description: This core text introducing readers to the field of metaphysics is now revised and updated with a new chapter on being.
Notes: "A Member of the Perseus Books Group."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Third Edition ix; 1 Introduction 1; PART ONE: THE WAY THE WORLD IS 23; INTRODUCTION 23; 2 Individuality 27; 3 Externality 53; 4 Temporality 71; 5 Objectivity 93; PART TWO: WHY THE WORLD IS 109; INTRODUCTION 109; 6 Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument 115; 7 Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument 145; PART THREE: THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD 169; INTRODUCTION 169; 8 What Rational Beings Are There? 175; 9 The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose 187; 10 The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism 209