Form and Reason: Essays in Metaphysics

Halper, Edward

ISBN 10: 0791415821 / ISBN 13: 9780791415825

Published by State University of New York Press, 1993

About this Item

Some spotting to page edges. No names, underlining, notes or highlighting. h3.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1784494029872

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Form and Reason: Essays in Metaphysics
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791415821
• ISBN 13: 9780791415825
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 13.67W x 21.03H x 1.6D centimeters 13.67 centimeters width by 21.03 centimeters height by 1.6 centimeters depth
• Weight: 363 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This book uses the study of philosophical texts to raise and explore metaphysical issues. On one level, each essay addresses a scholarly issue in a classical text, often a text of Aristotle's. On a deeper level, the issues Halper considers are metaphysical. However, unlike thinkers who have brought linguistic analysis and contemporary metaphysical notions to these texts, Halper approaches them to find their formulations of issues and their strategies of pursuit. Halper is not concerned with the defense of metaphysical commitments but with finding and exploring paths of metaphysical inquiry.

The essays in this volume are exploratory and exegetical rather than decisive. Their contribution to metaphysics lies in the issues they raise, the methods they explore, and their conception of metaphysics as a discipline rooted in philosophical problems.

About the Author

Edward Halper is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, Athens.