ENGLISH

Material Beings

By Peter van Inwagen

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
9780801483066
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26697955 bytes)
Pages
288\310
Time added
2022-12-12 00:47:18
MetaphysicsOrdinary Objects

Description

Cover Copyright Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Special Composition Question 3. Contact, a Representative Answer to the Special Composition Question 4. *The General Composition Question 5. *What We ShaIl Not Presuppose 6. Answers to the Special Cornposition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs 7. *Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur 8. Extreme Answers to the Special Composition Question: Nihilism and Universalism 9. The Proposed Answer 10. Why the Proposed Answer to the Special Composition Question, Radical Though It Is, Does Not Contradict Our Ordinary Beliefs 11. The Topie of the Previous Section Continued: Paraphrase 12. Unity and Thinking 13. Artifacts 14. The Identities of Material Objects 15. Brain Transplants 16. Two Problerns about Personal Identity: Mernory and Commissurotomy 17. The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Composition 18. The Vagueness of Identity 19. The Vagueness of Existence Notes Index

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