The Way Things are: Basic Readings in MetaphysicsThis anthology of classic and contemporary readings addresses the major areas of metaphysical inquiry: personal identity and responsibility; free will and determinism; change and time; existence and non-existence; the mind-body problem; and causal determinism and free will. |
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... believe that this sort of causality ever occurs in our world . But I am un- able to see any conceptual reason why it could not be reasonable for the inhabitants of a world very different from ours to believe that such causality does ...
... believe that this sort of causality ever occurs in our world . But I am un- able to see any conceptual reason why it could not be reasonable for the inhabitants of a world very different from ours to believe that such causality does ...
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... believe as I did , till you bring good reasons to the contrary . Phil . What ! is it come to this , that you only believe the exis- tence of material objects , and that your belief is founded barely on the possibility of its being true ...
... believe as I did , till you bring good reasons to the contrary . Phil . What ! is it come to this , that you only believe the exis- tence of material objects , and that your belief is founded barely on the possibility of its being true ...
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... believe that underlying the particular case there is a regular- ity that could be formulated sharply and without caveat . In our daily traffic with events and actions that must be fore- seen or understood , we perforce make use of the ...
... believe that underlying the particular case there is a regular- ity that could be formulated sharply and without caveat . In our daily traffic with events and actions that must be fore- seen or understood , we perforce make use of the ...
Contents
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Of Identity Thomas Reid | 70 |
Rigid Designation Hugh S Chandler | 76 |
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1984 World Series A-properties actions agglomerativity Alice Anaximander Anomalous Monism Anselm's answer argue assumption Basileides believe Berkeley body brain causal causal role cause claim colours conceive conception consciousness consider continue deny distinction dualism Eiffel Tower entails exist experience false follows human idea identity theory imagination immaterial incompatibilism incompatibilist instance Inwagen J. J. C. Smart Jaegwon Kim Journal of Philosophy kill Grandfather knowledge laws logical matter mental events metaphysical mind modal logic modal principle motion nature necessity object obligation occur Oxford pain Passage Argument past perceptions personal identity Phil Philosophical physical events position possible worlds predicate premise present properties proposition pure passage Qualia question reason relation Richard Swinburne rigid designators seems sensation sense sensible qualities ship soft fact sort soul space spatial location substance suppose Sydney Shoemaker t₁ temporal thesis things thought time-dimension tion total freeze true truth University Press