Reality
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Reality

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eBook - ePub

Reality

About this book

In Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, Peter Loptson argues for a conception of metaphysics as the most general or comprehensive method of inquiry. Working from a broadly analytic and naturalist perspective, he confronts positions that claim metaphysics to be impossible, as advanced in ancient, Kantian, post-Kantian, and contemporary philosophy, showing them to be unsuccessful. He draws the topics of his selective investigation of metaphysics partly from the work of Kant, whom he conceives as a primary guide to what metaphysical enquiry seeks to know. Loptson provides accounts of basic categories of what is real and outlines major historical metaphysical systems. He then goes on to explore aspects of existence, essence, substance, universals, space, time, causality, mind, freedom, and other topics. This important contribution to metaphysics offers both sustained arguments on all aspects of the subject and important insights into the major metaphysical systems from the history of philosophy. The first edition of Reality appeared in 2001 to great acclaim. For this new edition the author has augmented the work's original arguments and extensively enlarged its scope and engagement with current stances and debates.

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Information

Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780776618876
Edition
2
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophical Metaphysics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the Second Edition
  6. Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
  7. Chapter I: What is Metaphysics?
  8. Chapter II: Metaphysics and its Critics: Realism, Antirealism, and the Possibility of Metaphysics
  9. Chapter III: Metaphysical Systems
  10. Chapter IV: Categories and First Principles
  11. Chapter V: Existence
  12. Chapter VI: Essence and Possible Worlds
  13. Chapter VII: Substance
  14. Chapter VIII: Universals
  15. Chapter IX: Space
  16. Chapter X: Time
  17. Chapter XI: Causality
  18. Chapter XII: Purpose
  19. Chapter XIII: Persons, Personal Identity, and Metaphysical Luck
  20. Chapter XIV: Mind
  21. Chapter XV: God
  22. Chapter XVI: Freedom and Determinism
  23. Chapter XVII: Immortality
  24. Notes
  25. Works Cited
  26. Index