{"product_id":"metaphysics-and-epistemology-a-guided-anthology-paperback-softback-9781118542583","title":"Metaphysics and Epistemology; A Guided Anthology (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118542583","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMetaphysics and Epistemology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Guided Anthology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an excellent anthology. It combines a wide range of readings on the central and lasting questions of metaphysics and epistemology. The selections are imaginative and in many cases unusual, and Stephen Hetherington introduces each reading with a lucid and lively introduction. Highly recommended!”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—Tim Crane, University of Cambridge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This comprehensive and creatively chosen anthology provides an excellent coverage of epistemological and metaphysical topics, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. It is highly recommended.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e—Duncan Pritchard, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Hetherington (Edited by), S Hetherington (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118542583, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 August 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 16.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetaphysics and Epistemology: A Guided Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive introductory overview of key themes, thinkers, and texts in metaphysics and epistemology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents a wide-ranging collection of carefully excerpted readings on metaphysics and epistemology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBlends classic and contemporary works to reveal the historical development and present directions in the fields of metaphysics and epistemology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides succinct, insightful commentary to introduce the essence of each selection at the beginning of chapters which also serve to inter-link the selected writings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Philosophical Image 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Life and the Search for Philosophical Knowledge 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlato, Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 2 Philosophical Questioning 14\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Philosophy and Fundamental Images 20\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilfrid Sellars, “Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Philosophy as the Analyzing of Key Concepts 27\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP.F. Strawson, Analysis and Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Philosophy as Explaining Underlying Possibilities 33\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Metaphysics: Philosophical Images of Being 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Is the World at all Physical? 43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 How Real Are Physical Objects? 43\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Are Physical Objects Never Quite as They Appear To Be? 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Are Physical Objects Really Only Objects of Thought? 54\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge Berkeley, The Principles of Human Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Is Even the Mind Physical? 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD.M. Armstrong, “The Causal Theory of the Mind”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Is the Physical World All There Is? 66\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrank Jackson, “Epiphenomenal Qualia”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Does the World Function? 74\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Is Causation Only a Kind of Regularity? 74\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Is Causation Something Singular and Unanalyzable? 81\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eG.E.M. Anscombe, “Causation and Determination”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Do Things Ever Have Qualities? 88\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 How Can Individual Things Have Repeatable Qualities? 88\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlato, Parmenides\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 How Can Individual Things Not Have Repeatable Qualities? 95\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eD.M. Armstrong, Nominalism and Realism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Are There Any Truths? 102\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Do Facts Make True Whatever Is True? 102\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBertrand Russell, “The Philosophy of Logical Atomism”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Are There Social Facts? 107\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Searle, Mind, Language and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Is There Only Personally Decided Truth? 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlato, Theaetetus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Is There a World At All? 120\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Has the World Been Designed by God? 120\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Is God’s Existence Knowable Purely Conceptually? 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSt. Anselm, Proslogion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Has This World Been Actualized by God from Among All Possible Worlds? 145\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eG.W. Leibniz, Monadology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Does This World Exist Because It Has Value Independently of God? 149\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNicholas Rescher, Nature and Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Can Something Have Value in Itself? 158\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlato, Euthyphro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Are Persons Persons? 161\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Is Each Person a Union of Mind and Body? 161\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRené Descartes, “Meditation VI”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Is Self-Consciousness what Constitutes a Person? 164\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 How Strictly Does Self-Consciousness Constitute a Person? 170\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoderick M. Chisholm, “Identity through Time”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Are Persons Constituted with Strict Identity At All? 177\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDerek Parfit, Reasons and Persons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Are We Animals? 187\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric T. Olson, “An Argument for Animalism”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Do People Ever Have Free Will and Moral Responsibility? 196\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Is There No Possibility of Acting Differently To How One Will in Fact Act? 196\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAristotle, De Interpretatione\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Could Our Being Entirely Caused Coexist with Our Acting Freely? 200\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Would Being Entirely Caused Undermine Our Personally Constitutive Emotions? 206\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP.F. Strawson, “Freedom and Resentment”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Is a Person Morally Responsible Only for Actions Performed Freely? 213\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarry G. Frankfurt, “Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Is Moral Responsibility for a Good Action Different to Moral Responsibility for a Bad Action? 218\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Wolf, “Asymmetrical Freedom”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Could a Person Be Harmed by Being Dead? 224\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Is It Impossible To Be Harmed by Being Dead? 224\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEpicurus, “Letter to Menoeceus”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Is It Impossible To Be Harmed by Being Dead at a Particular Time? 226\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLucretius, De Rerum Natura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Would Immortality Be Humanly Possible and Desirable? 229\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBernard Williams, “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Can a Person be Deprived of Benefits by Being Dead? 236\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFred Feldman, Confrontations with the Reaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Readings for Part II 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Epistemology: Philosophical Images of Knowing 245\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan We Understand What It Is to Know? 247\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Is Knowledge a Supported True Belief? 247\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlato, Meno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 When Should a Belief be Supported by Evidence? 251\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eW.K. Clifford, “The Ethics of Belief”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Is Knowledge a Kind of Objective Certainty? 256\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA.J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Are All Fallibly Supported True Beliefs Instances of Knowledge? 260\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdmund L. Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Must a True Belief Arise Aptly, if it is to be Knowledge? 264\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlvin I. Goldman, “A Causal Theory of Knowing”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Must a True Belief Arise Reliably, if it is to be Knowledge? 268\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlvin I. Goldman, “Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Where is the Value in Knowing? 273\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Z. Elgin, “The Epistemic Efficacy of Stupidity”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Is Knowledge Always a Virtuously Derived True Belief? 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski, Virtues of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan We Ever Know Just through Observation? 287\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Is All Knowledge Ultimately Observational? 287\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Is There a Problem of Not Knowing that One Is Not Dreaming? 292\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRené Descartes, “Meditation I”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 What Is It Really to be Seeing Something? 295\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Lewis, “Veridical Hallucination and Prosthetic Vision”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Is There a Possibility of Being a Mere and Unknowing Brain in a Vat? 302\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHilary Putnam, Reason, Truth and History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Is It Possible to Observe Directly the Objective World? 311\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn McDowell, “The Disjunctive Conception of Experience as Material for a Transcendental Argument”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan We Ever Know Innately? 317\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 Is It Possible to Know Innately Some Geometrical or Mathematical Truths? 317\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePlato, Meno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 Is There No Innate Knowledge At All? 325\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan We Ever Know Just through Reflection? 335\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Is All Knowledge Ultimately Reflective? 335\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRené Descartes, Discourse on Method\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Can Reflective Knowledge Be Substantive and Informative? 340\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eImmanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 Is All Apparently Reflective Knowledge Ultimately Observational? 349\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Stuart Mill, A System of Logic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 Is Scientific Reflection Our Best Model for Understanding Reflection? 355\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eC.S. Peirce, “Some Consequences of Four Incapacities” and “How To Make Our Ideas Clear”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 Are Some Necessities Known through Observation, Not Reflection? 363\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSaul A. Kripke, Naming and Necessity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan We Know in Other Fundamental Ways? 369\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 Is Knowing-How a Distinct Way of Knowing? 369\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGilbert Ryle, “Knowing How and Knowing That”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 Is Knowing One’s Intention-in-Action a Distinct Way of Knowing? 376\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eG.E.M. Anscombe, Intention\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 Is Knowing via What Others Say or Write a Distinct Way of Knowing? 383\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Lackey, “Knowing from Testimony”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e60 Is Knowing through Memory a Distinct Way of Knowing? 391\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan We Fundamentally Fail Ever To Know? 399\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e61 Are None of our Beliefs More Justifiable than Others? 399\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e62 Are None of Our Beliefs Immune from Doubt? 407\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRené Descartes, “Meditation I”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e63 Are We Unable Ever To Extrapolate Justifiedly Beyond Our Observations? 410\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan Skeptical Arguments Be Escaped? 417\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e64 Can We Know at Least Our Conscious Mental Lives? 417\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRené Descartes, “Meditation II”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e65 Can We Know Some Fundamental Principles by Common Sense? 422\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e66 Do We Know a Lot, but Always Fallibly? 434\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKarl R. Popper, “On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e67 Is It Possible to have Knowledge even when Not Knowing that One Is Not a Brain in a Vat? \u003ci\u003e444\u003cbr\u003e Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Readings for Part III 452\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52165912363288,"sku":"9781118542583","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781118542583.jpg?v=1781101808","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/metaphysics-and-epistemology-a-guided-anthology-paperback-softback-9781118542583","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}