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John Heil. What is Metaphysics?
CONTENTS
Guide
List of Illustrations
Pages
Polity’s What is Philosophy? series
What is Metaphysics?
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction. 1.0 Metaphysics Is . . . What?
1.1 Metametaphysics
1.2 Ontology
1.3 What Now?
Glossary
Further Readings
2 Time Goes By – Or Does It? 2.0 Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
2.1 TheASeries and theBSeries
2.2 A Fourth Dimension
Spatial and Temporal Parts
2.3 Going with the Flow
Glossary
Further Readings
3 Appearance and Reality. 3.0 The Saga of Two Tables
3.1 Idealism
3.2 The Reconciliation Project
3.3 The Manifest and Scientific Images
3.4 Levels of Reality
3.5 Levels of Difficulty
3.6 The State of Play
3.7 Truthmaking
Glossary
Further Readings
4 What There Is. 4.0 Categories of Being
4.1 Substance and Property
4.2 Tropes
4.3 Universals
4.4 Historical Interlude
4.5 Modes
4.6 Universals Fight Back
The Property Zoo. Properties as universals
Properties as particulars
4.7 Substances
Predicates and Properties
Glossary
Further Readings
5 What Else There Is. 5.0 Relations
5.1 Internal and External Relations
5.2 Spatial (and Temporal) Locations
5.3 Causation
5.4 The Causal Matrix
5.5 Chancy Powers
Glossary
Further Readings
6 One from Many, Many from One. 6.0 Essences
6.1 Wholes from Parts
6.2 Complexes and Their Parts
6.3 Identity and Composition
Essence and Identity
6.4 Essences to the Rescue
6.5 Parts from Wholes
6.6 Personal Identity
Glossary
Further Readings
7 Aristotle vs Hume. 7.0 Bringings About
7.1 Aristotelianism
7.2 Humeanism
Supervenience
7.3 Qualitied Somethings
7.4 Speculative Cosmology
7.5 Hylomorphism
7.6 A Humean Cosmology
Glossary
Further Readings
8 Is this Chapter Really Necessary? 8.0 Necessitation
8.1 Modality
8.2 Alternative Universes
8.3 Logical Possibility
8.4 Painless Modal Realism
8.5 A Spinozistic Cosmology
Glossary
Further Readings
9 Conscious Minds. 9.0 Body and Mind
9.1 Mental Phenomena
9.2 Origins of the Hard Problem
9.3 Emergence
9.4 Panpsychism
9.5 Back to Basics
9.6 Mary Learns Something New
9.7 What Is it Like to Experience an Experience?
9.8 Sensitivity Training
Glossary
Further Readings
10 Free Will. 10.0 Acting Freely
10.1 Is Free Will an Illusion?
10.2 Spontaneity
10.3 Approaches to Free Will
10.4 Reconciliation
Glossary
Further Readings
11 Are We There Yet? 11.0 No Pain No Gain
11.1 Truthmaking Again
11.2 Realism
11.3 Ontological Seriousness
11.4 What Now?
Further Readings
Index
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John Heil is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University, and an Honorary Research Associate at Monash University. Professor Heil is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and is listed among the 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers.
Stephen Hetherington, What is Epistemology?
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Many of the themes to be addressed might strike you as at odds with common sense. Common sense is a vexed notion, however. Does common sense tell us that Earth is flat, that tables and chairs exist outside our minds, or that things could have been very different than they are? Does Earth appear flat? Well, how would a spherical Earth appear? And how would things appear if nothing existed outside your mind, or if everything were preordained and nothing happened by chance?
You might have views on one or more of these points, but observe that, in the course of taking any sort of a stand on them, you would be engaging in metaphysical reflection. Is it absurd to think that nothing exists outside your own mind? Probably, but why is it absurd? Simply appealing to the appearances here is no help at all, and if you brush off such questions as idle, what are your reasons?
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