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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... give any sense to the notion of there being a half - way between one having certain future experiences which some person has , and one not hav- ing them , and so to the notion of a person being divisible . But even if this notion of ...
... give any sense to the notion of there being a half - way between one having certain future experiences which some person has , and one not hav- ing them , and so to the notion of a person being divisible . But even if this notion of ...
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... give rise to animal motion , or apply our limbs to their proper use and office . That their motion follows the command of the will is a matter of common experience , like other natural events : But the power or energy by which this is ...
... give rise to animal motion , or apply our limbs to their proper use and office . That their motion follows the command of the will is a matter of common experience , like other natural events : But the power or energy by which this is ...
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... give rise to a corpo- rate individual to whom the obligation to do both these things would be owed . Human undertakings can give rise to obligations to collec- tive entities only when the undertakings concern such entities . If I ...
... give rise to a corpo- rate individual to whom the obligation to do both these things would be owed . Human undertakings can give rise to obligations to collec- tive entities only when the undertakings concern such entities . If I ...
Contents
PART II | 93 |
PART III | 149 |
Negative Existentials Richard Cartwright | 163 |
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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 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 Peter van Inwagen Phil Philosophical physical events position possible worlds predicate premise present properties proposition pure passage Qualia question reason relation 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