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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... identity relation be- tween one day's stormy events and the next day's stormy events . Thus , there can be persistence without identity . If that is right , there is perhaps this difference between sub- stantial things and events : The ...
... identity relation be- tween one day's stormy events and the next day's stormy events . Thus , there can be persistence without identity . If that is right , there is perhaps this difference between sub- stantial things and events : The ...
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... identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity . The comparison of the theatre must not mis- lead us . They are the ... Identity 43 objects . However at one instant 42 Identity.
... identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity . The comparison of the theatre must not mis- lead us . They are the ... Identity 43 objects . However at one instant 42 Identity.
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... identity in general , what by our own personal identity , and how we are led into that invincible belief and conviction which every man has of his own personal identity , as far as his memory reaches . Identity in general , I take to be ...
... identity in general , what by our own personal identity , and how we are led into that invincible belief and conviction which every man has of his own personal identity , as far as his memory reaches . Identity in general , I take to be ...
Contents
2 | 51 |
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