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catalog contributor b11101776.
catalog contributor b11101777.
catalog created "1998.".
catalog date "1998".
catalog date "1998.".
catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
catalog description "Ch. 1. What is metaphysics? -- Ch. 2. Metaphysics and political philosophy -- Plato, Crito, Phaedo -- Thomas Hobbes, Selection from the Leviathan -- Simone de Beauvoir, The second sex, introduction -- Bertrand Russell, Selection from The Problems of Philosophy -- Ch. 3. Values and reality -- John O'Neill, The varieties of intrinsic value -- J.L. Mackie, The subjectivity of values -- Richard Boyd, How to be a moral realist -- Ch. 4. God and evil -- St. Anselm of Canterbury, Selection from Proslogion -- St. Thomas Aquinas, Selection from Summa Theologica -- David Hume, Selection from Dialogues concerning natural religion -- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Summary of the controversy reduced to formal arguments -- J.L. Mackie, Evil and omnipotence -- Alvin Plantinga, Was it within God's power to create any possible world he pleased? -- Ch. 5. Causation and responsibility -- David Hume, Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- Edward H. Madden, A third view of causality -- Alan Garfinkel, The ethics of explanation -- Ch. 6. Mind and morality -- Rene ́Descartes, Selections from Principles of Philosophy and Passions of the soul -- Denis Diderot, Selection from Conversation between d'Alembert and Diderot -- Thomas Nagel, What is it like to be a bat? -- John R. Searle, Is the brain's mind a computer program? -- Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland, Could a machine think? -- Ch. 7. Freedom and responsibility -- Paul Henri Thiry d'Holback, Selection from The System of Nature, Appendix -- C.A. Campbell, Has the self "free will"? -- William L. Rowe, Two concepts of freedom -- Harry G. Frankfurt, Freedom of the will and the concept of a person -- Susan Wolf, Sanity and the metaphysics of responsibility -- Ch. 8. Against metaphysics -- Rudolf Carnap, The elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The four great errors -- John Rawls, Justice as fairness: Political not metaphysical.".
catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
catalog extent "ix, 499 p. ;".
catalog identifier "1557867283 (hardbound)".
catalog identifier "1557867291 (pbk.)".
catalog issued "1998".
catalog issued "1998.".
catalog language "eng".
catalog publisher "Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers,".
catalog subject "110 21".
catalog subject "BD111 .B35 1998".
catalog subject "Metaphysics.".
catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. What is metaphysics? -- Ch. 2. Metaphysics and political philosophy -- Plato, Crito, Phaedo -- Thomas Hobbes, Selection from the Leviathan -- Simone de Beauvoir, The second sex, introduction -- Bertrand Russell, Selection from The Problems of Philosophy -- Ch. 3. Values and reality -- John O'Neill, The varieties of intrinsic value -- J.L. Mackie, The subjectivity of values -- Richard Boyd, How to be a moral realist -- Ch. 4. God and evil -- St. Anselm of Canterbury, Selection from Proslogion -- St. Thomas Aquinas, Selection from Summa Theologica -- David Hume, Selection from Dialogues concerning natural religion -- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Summary of the controversy reduced to formal arguments -- J.L. Mackie, Evil and omnipotence -- Alvin Plantinga, Was it within God's power to create any possible world he pleased? -- Ch. 5. Causation and responsibility -- David Hume, Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- Edward H. Madden, A third view of causality -- Alan Garfinkel, The ethics of explanation -- Ch. 6. Mind and morality -- Rene ́Descartes, Selections from Principles of Philosophy and Passions of the soul -- Denis Diderot, Selection from Conversation between d'Alembert and Diderot -- Thomas Nagel, What is it like to be a bat? -- John R. Searle, Is the brain's mind a computer program? -- Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland, Could a machine think? -- Ch. 7. Freedom and responsibility -- Paul Henri Thiry d'Holback, Selection from The System of Nature, Appendix -- C.A. Campbell, Has the self "free will"? -- William L. Rowe, Two concepts of freedom -- Harry G. Frankfurt, Freedom of the will and the concept of a person -- Susan Wolf, Sanity and the metaphysics of responsibility -- Ch. 8. Against metaphysics -- Rudolf Carnap, The elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The four great errors -- John Rawls, Justice as fairness: Political not metaphysical.".
catalog title "Beginning metaphysics : an introductory text with readings / edited by Heimir Geirsson and Michael Losonsky.".
catalog type "text".