Christopher Peacocke

The Primacy of Metaphysics

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Produktbeschreibung

What is the relation between the nature of the things you think about, and the ways you think about them? Christopher Peacocke argues that meaning is never prior to metaphysics - to the nature of the world. He shows that this view holds for a wide range of topics, including magnitudes, time, the self, and abstract objects such as numbers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780198835578
• ISBN-10: 0198835574
• Artikelnr.: 54756448

Autorenporträt

Christopher Peacocke worked for many years in Oxford and London. He was successively a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London, and finally for twelve years Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2000 he became Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is currently Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study in the University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Metaphysics and the Theory of Content
2: Magnitudes
3: Time
4: The Self
5: Number
6: Ontology and Intelligibility
7: Avenues for Further Development