TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Inwagen,Peter
TI  - Material Beings
SN  - 9781501713033
AV  - BD311 .V35 1995eb
U1  - 111 23
PY  - 1990///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Identity (Philosophical concept)
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Determinism
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Existence
KW  - Mind
KW  - Perception
KW  - Reality
KW  - advanced philosophy
KW  - american philosopher
KW  - answers for special composition question
KW  - answers for the Question of Material Composition
KW  - compositional nihilism
KW  - contemporary debates in metaphysics
KW  - contemporary metaphysics
KW  - explaining the Question of Material Composition
KW  - identities of material objects
KW  - living philosophers
KW  - materialism
KW  - mereological nihilism
KW  - metaphysics of material objects
KW  - metaphysics
KW  - metphysical debates
KW  - ontological philosophy
KW  - ontology
KW  - philosophy of identity
KW  - philosophy of metaphysics
KW  - philosophy of special composition question
KW  - philosophy of the mind
KW  - philosophy
KW  - physchology of identity
KW  - special composition question
KW  - technical philosophy
KW  - understanding the mind
KW  - understanding the special composition question
KW  - what is metaphysics
KW  - what is the special composition question
KW  - what is the the Question of Material Composition
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713033
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