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Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (Reading Philosophy)

By Helen Beebee , Julian Dodd

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1405123672, 9781405123679, 1405123664, 9781405123662
LCC
BD95 .R43 2007
Open Library ID
OL17897634M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8029311 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
256\257
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views Aims to improve the reader’s ability to engage critically with philosophical texts, and to use them as a springboard for philosophical thought and writing Introduces readers to the perennial problems of metaphysics and the ways that different analytic philosophers have approached them

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