Jaegwon Kim & Ernest Sosa 
A Companion to Metaphysics [PDF ebook] 

Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Metaphysics 2nd
Edition includes a section of detailed review essays from
renowned metaphysicians, and the addition of more than 30 new
encyclopedic entries, taking the number of entries to over 300.

* Includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries

* Features more than 30 all-new ‘A to Z’ entries

* Offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned
metaphysicians

* Provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for
students and professionals alike

表中的内容

List of Contributors vii

Introduction xiii

Part I Extended Essays 1

Part II Metaphysics From A to Z 95

Index 637

关于作者

The Editors

Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and the books Supervenience and Mind (1993), Mind in a Physical World (1998), Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005), and Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edn. (2006). He is co-editor of Blackwell’s Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edn. (2008).

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. With Jonathan Dancy he is also co-editor of another volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series: A Companion to Epistemology (1993); and, with Laurence Bon Jour, of Epistemic Justification (2003), a volume in the Blackwell Great Debates in Philosophy series. His other publications include Knowledge in Perspective (1991), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and Reflective Knowledge (2009).

Gary S. Rosenkrantz is Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A practicing metaphysician for more than 30 years, Professor Rosenkrantz’s published books include Haecceity: An Ontological Essay (1993), and three works co-authored with Joshua Hoffman: Substance Among Other Categories (1994), Substance: Its Nature and Existence (1996), and The Divine Attributes (2002).