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The Possibility of Metaphysics

Substance, Identity, and Time
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Jonathan Lowe argues that metaphysics should be restored to a central position in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of rational inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by idetifying the categories of being and the relations of ontological dependency between entities of different categories. He proceeds to set out a unified and original metaphysical system: he defends a substance ontology, according to which the existence of the world s one world in time depends upon the existence of persisting things which retain their identity over time and through processes of qualitative change. And he contends that even necessary beings, such as the abstract objects of mathematics, depend ultimately for their existence upon there being a concrete world of enduring substances. Within his system of metaphysics Lowe seeks to answer many of the deepest and most challenging questions in philosophy.

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E. J. Lowe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham.
Release date NZ
June 7th, 2001
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  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
286
Dimensions
156x236x16
ISBN-13
9780199244997
Product ID
2196580

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