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Metaphysics book cover

5th Edition

Metaphysics

By Peter van Inwagen Copyright 2023
332 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is an introduction to metaphysics. It presupposes no previous acquaintance with philosophy, and addresses the following questions: What is metaphysics? Is there a plurality of things, or is there only one thing? Is there an external world, a world of things that exist independently of human thought and sensation? What is time? Is there such a thing as objective truth? Why is there... Read more

Preface to the Fifth Edition

1. Introduction

Part I: The Way the World is

2. Individuality

3. Externality

4. Temporality

5. Objectivity

Part II: Why the World is

6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument

7. Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument

Part III: The Inhabitants of the World

8. What Rational Beings Are There?

9. The Place of Rational beings in the World: Design and Purpose

10. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism

11. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity

12. The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will

13. Concluding Meditation

Coda: Being

Biography

Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and research professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of An Essay on Free Will (1983), Material Beings (1990), Being: A Study in Ontology (2022), and seven other books. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Gifford Lecturer, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of St Andrews.

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