| A World of States of Affairs Contributor(s): Armstrong, D. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521580641 ISBN-13: 9780521580649 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $125.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: In this important study David Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. All these, it is argued, find their place and can be understood inside a scheme of states of affairs. This is a comprehensive and rigorously this-worldly account of the most general features of reality, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective, and it will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 111 |
| LCCN: 96008598 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.16 lbs) 300 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesizes but also develops his thinking over the past twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the logical atomism of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. It will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy. |