Metaphysics: The Fundamentals

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics.

• Presents an accessible, up-to-date and broad-ranging survey of one of the most dynamic and often daunting sub-fields in contemporary philosophy
• 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
• Explores key questions while identifying important assumptions, axioms, and methodological principles
• Addresses topics in ontology, modality, causality, and universals; as well as issues surrounding material composition, persistence, space, and time

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Metaphysics, metaphysician, analytic philosophy, philosophy, natural philosophy, ontology, Aristotle, being, existence, reality, Quine, Modality, Causality, Hume, Material Composition, Paradox, Persistence, Time, Space, Universals, Aristotelian Metaphysics, Physics