A Companion to Metaphysics (Second Edition)
Language: English
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
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- Title
- A Companion to Metaphysics (Second Edition)
- Author
- Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa and Gary S. Rosenkrantz (editors)
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1405152982
- ISBN 13
- 9781405152983
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Series
- Book 25 of 68: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy, Science
- 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
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About the Author
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 BonJour, 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).
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