Sketch for a systematic metaphysics
By: D.M. Armstrong
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780199590612
Description: "David Armstrong sets out his metaphysical system in a set of concise and lively chapters each dealing with one aspect of the world. He begins with the assumption that all that exists is the physical world of space-time. On this foundation he constructs a coherent metaphysical scheme that gives plausible answers to many of the great problems of metaphysics. He gives accounts of properties, relations, and particulars; laws of nature; modality; abstract objects such as numbers; and time and mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [116]-120) and index.
Table of contents: title: Properties; title: Relations; title: States of affairs; title: Laws of nature; title: Reaching to dispositionalism; title: Particulars; title: Truthmakers; title: Possibility, actuality, necessity; title: Limits; title: Absences; title: The rational disciplines : logic and mathematics; title: Numbers; title: Classes; title: Time; title: Mind.