Ontology, Identity, and Modality
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Ontology, Identity, and Modality by Peter Van Inwagen
This book gathers together thirteen of Peter van Inwagen's essays on metaphysics, several of which have acquired the status of modern classics in their field. They range widely across such topics as Quine's philosophy of quantification, the ontology of fiction, the part-whole relation, the theory of 'temporal parts', and human knowledge of modal truths. In addition, van Inwagen considers the question as to whether the psychological continuity theory of personal identity is compatible with materialism, and defends the thesis that possible states of affairs are abstract objects, in opposition to David Lewis's 'extreme modal realism'. A specially-written introduction completes the collection, which will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in metaphysics.
Van Inwagen, Peter: - Peter van Inwagen is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of An Essay on Free Will (1983), and his numerous other publications include Material Beings (1990), Ontology, Identity, and Modality: Essays in Metaphysics (Cambridge, 2002), The Problem of Evil (2006), and Existence: Essays in Ontology (Cambridge, 2014).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521795487 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521795486 |
| Title | Ontology, Identity, and Modality |
| Author | Peter Van Inwagen |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2001-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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