This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views.
- Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context
- Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views
- Aims to improve the reader’s ability to engage critically with philosophical texts, and to use them as a springboard for philosophical thought and writing
- Introduces readers to the perennial problems of metaphysics and the ways that different analytic philosophers have approached them
Sources and Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1 Personal Identity.
Introduction.
Derek Parfit, ‘Personal Identity’.
Commentary on Parfit.
Marya Schechtman, ‘Personhood and Personal Identity’.
Commentary on Schechtman.
Further Reading.
Essay Questions.
2 Free Will.
Introduction.
Peter van Inwagen, ‘The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism’.
Commentary on van Inwagen.
Daniel Dennett, ‘Could Have Done Otherwise’ (extract from Elbow Room).
Commentary on Dennett.
Further Reading.
Essay Questions.
Appendix.
3 Realism and Anti-realism.
Introductl³r
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