Each Part opens with an Introduction and ends with Study Questions and Further Reading.
List of Boxes
Notes on Contributors
Part I. God
1.
Why Anything? Why This?
,
Derek Parfit
2.
The Five Ways
,
Thomas Aquinas
3.
Selection from Natural Theology
,
William Paley
4.
Selection from Proslogion
,
Anselm of Canterbury
5.
Selection from Monadology
,
G.W. Leibniz
6.
Evil and Omnipotence
,
J.L. Mackie
Part II. Realism and Idealism
7.
Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
,
John Locke
8.
Selection from Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
,
George Berkeley
9.
Selection from Critique of Pure Reason
,
Immanuel Kant
10.
Selection from Matter and Sense
,
Howard Robinson
11.
Realism
,
Michael Dummett
Part III. Being
12.
Selection from Categories
,
Aristotle
13.
Selection from Essay Concerning Human Understanding
,
John Locke
14.
Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity
,
Robert M. Adams
15.
On What There Is
,
W.V. Quine
16.
Selection from Material Beings
,
Peter van Inwagen
17.
Can There Be Vague Objects?
,
Gareth Evans
18.
Vague Identity: Evans Misunderstood
,
David Lewis
Part IV. Universals and Particulars
19.
Selections from Parmenides
and Republic
,
Plato
20.
Selection from Universals: An Opinionated Introduction
,
D.M. Armstrong
21.
Selection from New Work for a Theory of Universals
,
David Lewis
22.
On the Elements of Being: I
,
Donald C. Williams
23.
Causality and Properties
,
Sydney Shoemaker
Part V. Necessity
24.
Selection from Naming and Necessity
,
Saul Kripke
25.
Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
,
David Lewis
26.
Actualism and Possible Worlds
,
Alvin Plantinga
27.
Selection from A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility
,
D.M. Armstrong
Part VI. Causation
28.
Selection from Metaphysics
,
Aristotle
29.
Selection from Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
,
David Hume
30.
Causation
,
David Lewis
31.
Causal Relations
,
Donald Davidson
32.
Selections from The Facts of Causation
,
D.H. Mellor
Part VII. Time and Space
33.
Selection from Physics
,
Aristotle
34.
Selection from The Nature of Existence
,
J.M.E McTaggart
35.
Changes in Events and Changes in Things
,
Arthur N. Prior
36.
Selection from Asymmetries in Time
,
Paul Horwich
37.
Selection from the Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence
38.
The Space-Time World
,
J.J.C. Smart
39.
The Paradoxes of Time Travel
,
David Lewis
Part VIII. Identity
40.
Identity through Time
,
Roderick M. Chisholm
41.
Selection from On the Plurality of Worlds
,
David Lewis
42.
Personal Identity
,
Derek Parfit
43.
Persons, Animals, and Ourselves
,
P.F. Snowdon
Part IX. Mind and Body
44.
Selection from Meditations on First Philosophy
,
René Descartes
45.
Selection from New System of the Nature of Substances
,
G.W. Leibniz
46.
Selections from Thought
,
Gilbert Harman
47.
Psychophysical and Theoretical Identifications
,
David Lewis
48.
Selection from Thinking Causes
,
Donald Davidson
49.
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
,
Thomas Nagel
X. Freedom and Determinism
50.
Selection from Treatise of Human Nature
,
David Hume
51.
Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person
,
Harry Frankfurt
52.
The Incompatibility of Freewill and Determinism
,
Peter van Inwagen
53.
Selection from Freedom from Physics: Quantum Mechanics and Free Will
,
Barry Loewer
54.
Human Freedom and the Self
,
Roderick M. Chisholm
References
Index
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