Description
The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key topics, concepts, and guiding principles of metaphysics.
- Represents the most comprehensive guide to metaphysics available today
- Offers authoritative coverage of the full range of topics that comprise the field of metaphysics in an accessible manner while considering competing views
- Explores key concepts such as space, time, powers, universals, and composition with clarity and depth
- Articulates coherent packages of metaphysical theses that include neo-Aristotelian, Quinean, Armstrongian, and neo-Humean
- Carefully tracks the use of common assumptions and methodological principles in metaphysics
Author: Robert C. Koons, Timothy Pickavance
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 04/17/2017
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.69lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781119116127
ISBN10: 1119116120
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
About the Author
ROBERT C. KOONS is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (1993) and Realism Regained (2000), co-author of Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (with Tim Pickavance, 2014), and co-editor of The Waning of Materialism (with George Bealer, 2010).
TIMOTHY PICKAVANCEis an Associate Professor and Chair of the Talbot Department of Philosophy at Biola University. He is co-author of Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (with Robert Koons, 2014).