Metaphysics: the Big Questions (Philosophy: the Big Questions) - Second Edition

Van Inwagen, Peter; Dean W. Zimmerman (editors)

ISBN 10: 1405125861 / ISBN 13: 9781405125864

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Metaphysics: the Big Questions (Philosophy: the Big Questions) - Second Edition
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405125861
• ISBN 13: 9781405125864
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This extensively revised and expanded edition of van Inwagen and Zimmerman’s popular collection of readings in metaphysics now features twenty-two additional selections, new sections on existence and reality, and an updated editorial commentary.

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• Collects classic and contemporary readings in metaphysics
  
• Answers some of the most puzzling questions about our world and our place in it
  
• Covers an unparalleled range of topics
  
• Now includes a new section on existence and reality, expanded discussions on many classic issues, and an updated editorial commentary

About the Author

PETER VAN INWAGEN is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Problem of Evil (2006), Ontology, Identity, and Modality (2001), God, Knowledge, and Mystery: Essays in Philosophical Theology (1995), Metaphysics (1993), Material Beings (1990), and An Essay on Free Will (1983).

DEAN W. ZIMMERMAN is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has published articles on metaphysics in a number of journals and collections, including The American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Mind, The Monist, Noûs, The Philosophical Review, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. He is also editor of the Oxford Studies in Metaphysics series.