The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is an outstanding, comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes, thinkers, and issues in metaphysics. The Companion features over fifty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars which are organized into three clear parts:
- History of Metaphysics
- Ontology
- Metaphysics and Science.
Each section features an introduction which places the range of essays in context, while an extensive glossary allows easy reference to key terms and definitions. The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is essential reading for students of philosophy and anyone interested in surveying the central topics and problems in metaphysics from causation to vagueness and from Plato and Aristotle to the present-day.
General Introduction Robin Le Poidevin Part 1: History of Metaphysics Introduction to Part 1 Peter Simons 1. Pre-Socratic Themes: being, not-being and mind David Sedley 2. Plato: arguments for Forms Richard Patterson 3. Aristotle: form, matter and substance Stephen Makin 4. Aristotle: time and change Ursula Coope 5. Medieval Metaphysics 1: the problem of universals Claude Panaccio 6. Medieval Metaphysics 2: things, non-things, God and time John Marenbon 7. Descartes: the Real Distinction Dugald Murdoch 8. Hobbes: matter, cause and motion George MacDonald Ross 9. Spinoza: substance, atl£c
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