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Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics

By Cynthia Macdonald

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2005
ISBN
0631186948, 9780631186946
Open Library ID
OL7609148M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
968 kB (991067 bytes)
Series
Contemporary Philosophy
Pages
288\288
Topic
History
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics explores the fundamental ontological categories of things; things that we encounter in everyday life, such as material substances, persons, events and universals. The author begins with a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics. She then goes on to develop tools that can be used to engage in metaphysical thinking about the basic varieties of things. The book both surveys existing accounts of the natures of these kinds of things, and argues for unique original positions of its own. The arguments support a systematically anti-reductionist view of the basic ontological categories.

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