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Metaphysics
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- Creator
- Peter van Inwagen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Cambridge, MA : Westview Press, 2002
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813365879, 0813365872, 9780813390550, 0813390559
- OCLC
- ocm49260832
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) and index.
- 1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. The Way the World Is -- 2. Individuality -- 3. Externality -- 4. Temporality -- 5. Objectivity -- Pt. 2. Why the World Is -- 6. Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument -- 7. Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument -- Pt. 3. The Inhabitants of the World -- 8. What Rational Beings Are There? -- 9. The Place of Rational Beings in the World: Design and Purpose -- 10. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism -- 11. The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity -- 12. The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will -- 13. Concluding Meditation