Material Beings /
Van Inwagen, Peter
Material Beings / Peter Van Inwagen. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : 9 halftones
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Special Composition Question -- 3. Contact, a Representative Answer to the Special Composition Question -- 4. The General Composition Question -- 5. What We Shall Not Presuppose -- 6. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs -- 7. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur -- 8. Extreme Answers to the Special Composition Question: Nihilism and Universalism -- 9. The Proposed Answer -- 10. Why the Proposed Answer to the Special Composition Question, Radical Though It Is, Does Not Contradict Our Ordinary Beliefs -- 11. The Topic of the Previous Section Continued: Paraphrase -- 12. Unity and Thinking -- 13. Artifacts -- 14. The Identities of Material Objects -- 15. Brain Transplants -- 16. Two Problerns about Personal Identity: Memory and Commissurotomy -- 17. The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Composition -- 18. The Vagueness of Identity -- 19. The Vagueness of Existence -- Notes -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501713033
10.7591/9781501713033 doi
Identity (Philosophical concept).
Ontology.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
Consciousness. Cosmology. Determinism. Epistemology. Existence. Mind. Perception. Reality. advanced philosophy. american philosopher. answers for special composition question. answers for the Question of Material Composition. compositional nihilism. contemporary debates in metaphysics. contemporary metaphysics. explaining the Question of Material Composition. identities of material objects. living philosophers. materialism. mereological nihilism. metaphysics of material objects. metaphysics. metphysical debates. ontological philosophy. ontology. philosophy of identity. philosophy of metaphysics. philosophy of special composition question. philosophy of the mind. philosophy. physchology of identity. special composition question. technical philosophy. understanding the mind. understanding the special composition question. what is metaphysics. what is the special composition question. what is the the Question of Material Composition.
BD311 / .V35 1995eb
111
Material Beings / Peter Van Inwagen. - 1 online resource (288 p.) : 9 halftones
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Special Composition Question -- 3. Contact, a Representative Answer to the Special Composition Question -- 4. The General Composition Question -- 5. What We Shall Not Presuppose -- 6. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs -- 7. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur -- 8. Extreme Answers to the Special Composition Question: Nihilism and Universalism -- 9. The Proposed Answer -- 10. Why the Proposed Answer to the Special Composition Question, Radical Though It Is, Does Not Contradict Our Ordinary Beliefs -- 11. The Topic of the Previous Section Continued: Paraphrase -- 12. Unity and Thinking -- 13. Artifacts -- 14. The Identities of Material Objects -- 15. Brain Transplants -- 16. Two Problerns about Personal Identity: Memory and Commissurotomy -- 17. The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Composition -- 18. The Vagueness of Identity -- 19. The Vagueness of Existence -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501713033
10.7591/9781501713033 doi
Identity (Philosophical concept).
Ontology.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
Consciousness. Cosmology. Determinism. Epistemology. Existence. Mind. Perception. Reality. advanced philosophy. american philosopher. answers for special composition question. answers for the Question of Material Composition. compositional nihilism. contemporary debates in metaphysics. contemporary metaphysics. explaining the Question of Material Composition. identities of material objects. living philosophers. materialism. mereological nihilism. metaphysics of material objects. metaphysics. metphysical debates. ontological philosophy. ontology. philosophy of identity. philosophy of metaphysics. philosophy of special composition question. philosophy of the mind. philosophy. physchology of identity. special composition question. technical philosophy. understanding the mind. understanding the special composition question. what is metaphysics. what is the special composition question. what is the the Question of Material Composition.
BD311 / .V35 1995eb
111