Metaphysics

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<p><i>Metaphysics: The Fundamentals</i> presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics.</p><ul><li>Presents an accessible, up-to-date and broad-ranging survey of one of the most dynamic and often daunting sub-fields in contemporary philosophy</li><li>Introduces readers to the seminal works of contemporary and historic philosophers, including Descartes, Leibniz, Russell, David Lewis, Alvin Plantinga, Kit Fine, Peter van Inwagen, John Hawthorne and many others</li><li>Explores key questions while identifying important assumptions, axioms, and methodological principles</li><li>Addresses topics in ontology, modality, causality, and universals; as well as issues surrounding material composition, persistence, space, and time</li></ul>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>Robert C. Koons</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of<i>Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality</i> (2009),<i> Realism Regained</i> (2000), and co-editor of<i>The Waning of Materialism</i> (2010).</p><b>Timothy Pickavance</b> is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Talbot Department of Philosophy at Biola University, La Mirada, California. He has published a number of papers on topics relating to metaphysics and epistemology.

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