Material Beings
eBook - ePub

Material Beings

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Material Beings

About this book

According to Peter van Inwagen, visible inanimate objects do not, strictly speaking, exist. In defending this controversial thesis, he offers fresh insights on such topics as personal identity, commonsense belief, existence over time, the phenomenon of vagueness, and the relation between metaphysics and ordinary language.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1. Introduction
  3. 2. The Special Composition Question
  4. 3. Contact, a Representative Answer to the Special Composition Question
  5. 4. *The General Composition Question
  6. 5. *What We Shall Not Presuppose
  7. 6. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs
  8. 7. *Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur
  9. 8. Extreme Answers to the Special Composition Question: Nihilism and Universalism
  10. 9. The Proposed Answer
  11. 10. Why the Proposed Answer to the Special Composition Question, Radical Though It Is, Does Not Contradict Our Ordinary Beliefs
  12. 11. The Topic of the Previous Section Continued: Paraphrase
  13. 12. Unity and Thinking
  14. 13. Artifacts
  15. 14. The Identities of Material Objects
  16. 15. Brain Transplants
  17. 16. Two Problems about Personal Identity: Memory and Commissurotomy
  18. 17. The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Composition
  19. 18. The Vagueness of Identity
  20. 19. The Vagueness of Existence
  21. Notes