Metaphysics /
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| Author / Creator: | Van Inwagen, Peter. |
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Perseus Books Group, c2009. |
| Description: | x, 329 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7248414 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface to the Third Edition
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1. The Way the World is
- Introduction
- 2. Individuality
- 3. Externality
- 4. Temporality
- 5. Objectivity
- Part 2. Why the World is
- Introduction
- 6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
- 7. Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument
- Part 3. The Inhabitants of the World
- Introduction
- 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 Physicialism
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
