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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... knowledge of the order in which events of the kind perceived occur . Yet our beliefs about the latter ( e.g. our knowledge that in general babies get bigger ) would be without justification ( and so would not amount to the knowledge ...
... knowledge of the order in which events of the kind perceived occur . Yet our beliefs about the latter ( e.g. our knowledge that in general babies get bigger ) would be without justification ( and so would not amount to the knowledge ...
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... knowledge could be remedied merely by her explicitly following through enough logical consequences of her vast physical knowledge . Endowing her with great logical acumen and persistence is not in itself enough to fill in the gaps in ...
... knowledge could be remedied merely by her explicitly following through enough logical consequences of her vast physical knowledge . Endowing her with great logical acumen and persistence is not in itself enough to fill in the gaps in ...
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... knowledge in the relevant sense . What Mary ac- quires when she is released is a certain representational or imagina- tive ability ; it is knowledge how rather than knowledge that . Hence , a physicalist can admit that Mary acquires ...
... knowledge in the relevant sense . What Mary ac- quires when she is released is a certain representational or imagina- tive ability ; it is knowledge how rather than knowledge that . Hence , a physicalist can admit that Mary acquires ...
Contents
2 | 51 |
Of Identity Thomas Reid | 70 |
Rigid Designation Hugh S Chandler | 76 |
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