The Routledge companion to metaphysics
By: edited by Robin Le Poidevin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Le Poidevin, Robin, 1962-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9780415396318; 9780415493963; 9780203879306
Subjects: Metaphysics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: hat is metaphysics? / Robin Le Poidevin; title: History of metaphysics; title: Introduction to part I: MJillennia of metaphysics / Peter Simons; title: Pre-socratic themes : being, not-being and mind / David Sedley; title: Plato : arguments for forms / Richard Patterson; title: Aristotle : form, matter, and substance / Stephen Makin; title: Aristotle : time and change / Ursula Coope; title: Medieval metaphysics I : the problem of universals / Claude Panaccio; title: Medieval metaphysics II : things, non-things, God, and time / John Marenbon; title: Descartes : the real distinction / Dugald Murdoch; title: Hobbes : matter, motion,  and cause / George MacDonald Ross; title: Spinoza : substance, attribute, and mode / Richard Glauser; title: Locke : the primary and secondary quality distinction / Lisa Downing; title: Leibniz : mind-body causation, and pre-established harmony / Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra; title: Berkeley : arguments for idealism / Tom Stoneham; title: Hume : necessary connections and distinct existences / Alexander Miller; title: Kant : the possibility of metaphysics / Lucy Allais; title: Hegel and Schopenhauer : reason and will / Rolf-Peter Horstmann; title: Anti-metaphysics I : Nietzsche / Maudemarie Clark; title: Bradley : the supra-relational absolute / William Mander; title: Whitehead : process and cosmology / Peter Simons; title: Heidegger : the question of being / Herman Philips; title: Anti-metaphysics II : verificationism and kindred views / Cheryl Misak; title: Metaphysics revivified / Avrum Stroll; title: Ontology : on what exists; title: Introduction to part II : being and related matters / Ross P. Cameron; title: To be / Chris Daly; title: Not to be / Graham Priest; title: Razor arguments / Peter Forrest; title: Substance / David Robb; title: Intrinsic and extrinsic properties / Ross P. Cameron; title: Universals : the contemporary debate / Fraser MacBride; title: Particulars / Herbert Hochberg; title: Persistence, composition, and identity / Nikk  Effingham; title: Relations / John Heil; title: Events, facts, and states of affairs / Julian Dodd; title: Possible worlds and possibilia / John Divers; title: Mathematical entities / Peter Clark; title: Fictional objects / Richard Hanley; title: Vagueness / Elizabeth Barnes; title: Minor entities : surfaces, holes, and shadows / Roberto Casati; title: Truth-makers and truth-bearers / John Bigelow; title: Values / Kevin Mulligan; title: Metaphysics and science; title: Introduction to part III : the study of nature / Robin le Poidevin; title: Space, absolute, and relational / Tim Maudlin; title: The infinite / Daniel Nolan; title: The passage of time / Eric T. Olson; title: The direction of time / D.H. Mellor; title: Causation / Michael Tooley; title: Laws and dispositions / Stephen Mumford; title: Determinism and probability / Phillip Percival; title: Essences and natural kinds / Alexander Bird; title: Metaphysics and relativity / Katherine Hawley; title: Metaphysics and quantum physics / Peter J. Lewis; title: Supervenience, reductionism, and emergence / Howard Robinson; title: Biometaphysics / Barry Smith; title: Social entities / Amie L. Thomasson; title: The mental and the physical / Louise Anthony; title: The self / John Campbell.