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Current Controversies in Metaphysics
Contributor(s): Barnes, Elizabeth (Editor)
ISBN: 0415855659     ISBN-13: 9780415855655
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $190.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
Dewey: 110
LCCN: 2016024034
Series: Current Controversies in Philosophy
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.75 lbs) 174 pages
 
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This book showcases a range of views on topics at the forefront of current controversies in the field of metaphysics. It will give readers a varied and alive introduction to the field, and cover such key issues as: modality, fundamentality, composition, the object/property distinction, and indeterminacy. The contributors include some of the most important philosophers currently writing on these issues. The questions and philosophers are:

  • Are there any individuals at the fundamental level? / (1) Shamik Dasgupta (2) Jason Turner

  • Is there an objective difference between essential and accidental properties? / (1) Meghan Sullivan (2) Kris McDaniel and Steve Steward

  • Are there any worldly states of affairs? / (1) Daniel Nolan (2) Joseph Melia

  • Are there any intermediate states of affairs? / (1) Jessica Wilson (2) Elizabeth Barnes and Ross Cameron

  • Do ordinary objects exist? / (1) Trenton Merricks (2) Helen Beebee

Editor Elizabeth Barnes guides readers through these controversies (all published here for the first time), with a synthetic introduction and succinct abstracts of each debate.