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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501713033
035 _a(DE-B1597)480130
035 _a(OCoLC)979970635
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050 4 _aBD311
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072 7 _aPHI013000
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082 0 4 _a111
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aVan Inwagen, Peter
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMaterial Beings /
_cPeter Van Inwagen.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[1990]
264 4 _c©1995
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.) :
_b9 halftones
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_t1. Introduction --
_t2. The Special Composition Question --
_t3. Contact, a Representative Answer to the Special Composition Question --
_t4. The General Composition Question --
_t5. What We Shall Not Presuppose --
_t6. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs --
_t7. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur --
_t8. Extreme Answers to the Special Composition Question: Nihilism and Universalism --
_t9. The Proposed Answer --
_t10. Why the Proposed Answer to the Special Composition Question, Radical Though It Is, Does Not Contradict Our Ordinary Beliefs --
_t11. The Topic of the Previous Section Continued: Paraphrase --
_t12. Unity and Thinking --
_t13. Artifacts --
_t14. The Identities of Material Objects --
_t15. Brain Transplants --
_t16. Two Problerns about Personal Identity: Memory and Commissurotomy --
_t17. The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Composition --
_t18. The Vagueness of Identity --
_t19. The Vagueness of Existence --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aAccording 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aIdentity (Philosophical concept).
650 0 _aOntology.
650 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
_2bisacsh
653 _aConsciousness.
653 _aCosmology.
653 _aDeterminism.
653 _aEpistemology.
653 _aExistence.
653 _aMind.
653 _aPerception.
653 _aReality.
653 _aadvanced philosophy.
653 _aamerican philosopher.
653 _aanswers for special composition question.
653 _aanswers for the Question of Material Composition.
653 _acompositional nihilism.
653 _acontemporary debates in metaphysics.
653 _acontemporary metaphysics.
653 _aexplaining the Question of Material Composition.
653 _aidentities of material objects.
653 _aliving philosophers.
653 _amaterialism.
653 _amereological nihilism.
653 _ametaphysics of material objects.
653 _ametaphysics.
653 _ametphysical debates.
653 _aontological philosophy.
653 _aontology.
653 _aphilosophy of identity.
653 _aphilosophy of metaphysics.
653 _aphilosophy of special composition question.
653 _aphilosophy of the mind.
653 _aphilosophy.
653 _aphyschology of identity.
653 _aspecial composition question.
653 _atechnical philosophy.
653 _aunderstanding the mind.
653 _aunderstanding the special composition question.
653 _awhat is metaphysics.
653 _awhat is the special composition question.
653 _awhat is the the Question of Material Composition.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713033
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