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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... material things stand in various causal relations to other things . In accordance with the causal analysis of existence , which says that all and only causally active things exist , such material things exist . The eighteenth - century ...
... material things stand in various causal relations to other things . In accordance with the causal analysis of existence , which says that all and only causally active things exist , such material things exist . The eighteenth - century ...
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... material object is a mind , 33 it seems that we have immaterial or nonmaterial parts . This suggests that we are - a person is â a union of a certain immaterial mind and a certain material body . This position is called substance ...
... material object is a mind , 33 it seems that we have immaterial or nonmaterial parts . This suggests that we are - a person is â a union of a certain immaterial mind and a certain material body . This position is called substance ...
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... material substance ( body ) and an immaterial substance ( a mind or a " soul , " as some people say ) . We ( normal ... material body . What does not continue is the mind - body union that is the person . Critics deny that there is any ...
... material substance ( body ) and an immaterial substance ( a mind or a " soul , " as some people say ) . We ( normal ... material body . What does not continue is the mind - body union that is the person . Critics deny that there is any ...
Contents
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Of Identity Thomas Reid | 70 |
Rigid Designation Hugh S Chandler | 76 |
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