Helen Beebee

Broschiertes Buch

Reading Metaphysics

Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary

Herausgeber: Beebee, Helen; Dodd, Julian

Beschreibung

This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics. Designed for students and general readers, it has a distinctive pedagogical aim: to enable readers to engage critically with challenging philosophical texts, and thereby use such texts as a springboard for their own philosophical thought and writing. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, which puts the author's views and arguments into context, explains key terms and argumentative moves, and - most importantly - asks a variety of questions. The questions are designed to prompt the reader to think critically about what the author is saying and why she is saying it, to think of objections, and to formulate and justify his or her own views on the topic. The book includes texts by Kripke, Lewis, Parfit, Armstrong, Nagel, and Dennett, amongst others, and discusses the following topics: free will, personal identity, realism and nominalism, modality, persistence, and realism and anti-realism.

Autor

Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Hume on Causation (2006) and co-editor, with Julian Dodd, of Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (2005). Julian Dodd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology (2007) and An Identity Theory of Truth (2000), and co-editor of Truthmakers: The Contemporary Debate (2005).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781405123679
• ISBN-10: 1405123672
• Artikelnr.: 22007830

Rezensionen

"A book that speaks directly to students. By combiningaccessible text selections with insightful commentary, cleargraphic devices for navigating within each chapter, and thoughtfulquestions, this new collection provides an invaluable teaching toolfor major areas of contemporary metaphysics."
Dale Jacquette, The Pennsylvania State University

"Reading Metaphysics is the perfect hybrid of anattentively edited anthology and a lucidly instructive textbook.Instead of overwhelming us with dozens of selections, the editorshave expertly chosen a small number of contemporary readings, thusgiving readers the time to probe deeply into the selected topicsand, more importantly, the time to learn how to take apart andinteract with a philosophical text. While the readings arewell-selected, the true strength of this book lies in theeditors' commentary. Students will leave this book ready, andeager, to take on more metaphysics and teachers will notice amarked improvement in their students' philosophicalability."
Andrew P. Mills, Otterbein College