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Restricted to use by people with documented print impairment Read by multiple readers Original version: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. 769 pages. 0199261970 System requirements: PC or compatible or Macintosh ; CD-ROM player and drive ; MP3 player UBC Crane Library
Contents:
Part I. God Why Anything? Why This? / Derek Parfit The Five Ways / Thomas Aquinas Selection from Natural Theology / William Paley Selection from Proslogion / Anselm of Canterbury Selection from Monadology / G.W. Leibniz Evil and Omnipotence / J.L. Mackie Part II. Realism and Idealism Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous / George Berkeley Selection from Critique of Pure Reason / Immanuel Kant Selection from Matter and Sense / Howard Robinson Realism / Michael Dummett Part III. Being Selection from Categories / Aristotle Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding / John Locke Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity / Robert M. Adams On What There Is / W.V. Quine Selection from Material Beings / Peter van Inwagen Can There Be Vague Objects? / Gareth Evans Vague Identity : Evans Misunderstood / David Lewis Part IV. Universals and Particulars Selections from Parmenides and Republic / Plato Selection from Universals : An Opinionated Introduction / D.M. Armstrong Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals / David Lewis On the Elements of Being : I / Donald C. Williams Causality and Properties / Sydney Shoemaker Part V. Necessity Selection from Naming and Necessity / Saul Kripke Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds / David Lewis Actualism and Possible Worlds / Alvin Plantinga Selection from A Combinational Theory of Possibility / D.M. Armstrong Part VI. Causation Selection from Metaphysics / Aristotle Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / David Hume Causation / David Lewis Causal Relations / Donald Davidson Selections from The Facts of Causation / D.H. Mellor Part VII. Time and Space Selection from Physics / Aristotle Selection from The Nature of Existence / J.M.E. McTaggart Changes in Events and Changes in Things / Arthur N. Prior Selection from Asymmetries in Time / Paul Horwich Selection from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence The Space-Time world / J.J.C. Smart The Paradoxes of Time Travel / David Lewis Part VIII. Identity Identity through Time / Roderick M-- Chisholm Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds / David Lewis Personal Identity / Derek Parfit Persons, Animals, and Ourselves / P.F. Snowdon Part IX. Mind and Body Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy / Rene Descartes Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances / G.W. Leibniz Selections from Thought / Gilbert Harman Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications / David Lewis Selection from Thinking Causes / Donald Davidson What Is It Like to Be a Bat? / Thomas Nagel Part X. Freedom and Determinism Selection from Treatise of Human Nature / David Hume Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person / Harry Frankfurt The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism / Peter van Inwagen Selection from Freedom from Physics : Quantum Mechanics and Free Will / Barry Loewer Human Freedom and the Self / Roderick M. Chisholm