附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Taking Metaphysics Seriously / W. Sweet -- Part One : Issues in Classical Metaphysics -- 1. Does Being Have a Nature? (Or: Metaphysics as a Science of the Real) / L. Dewan -- 2. Logic and Metaphysics in German Philosophy from Melanchthon to Hegel / R. Pozzo -- 3. Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Pre-Established Harmony / R. Feist -- Part Two : Modern Challenges to the Scope of Metaphysics -- 4. The Integration of History and Metaphysics / K. Schmitz -- 5. Suffering, Metaphysics, and Nietzsche's Path to the Holy / D. Ahern -- 6. Can Creation be a Metaphysical Concept? / P. Harris -- 7. Metaphysics West and East : Bosanquet and Sankara / G. Satapathy -- Part Three : On the Road to Metaphysics : Freedom, Agency, And Existence -- 8. Metaphysics and the Origins of Arendt's Account of Evil and Human Freedom / C. LePage -- 9. Agents, Causes, and Explanations : The Idea of a Metaphysical System / L. Armour -- 10. Speculative and Analytical Philosophy, Theories of Existence, and the Generalization of the Mathematical Function -- J. Bradley -- Part Four : Metaphysical Theories In A Contemporary Context -- 11. Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato / F. O'Rourke -- 12. Metaphysics and Idealism / W.J. Mander -- 13. Empiricism : Principles and Problems / F. Wilson -- Part Five : The Possibility of Metaphysics -- 14. Metaphysics as "de Insolubilibus" / M.M. Tweedale -- 15. Designing Metaphysics / E. Trott.
摘要:Today, when systematic philosophy - and reason itself - are challenged both outside of and within philosophy, is it still possible to do metaphysics? This volume provides a broad perspective on contemporary approaches to the nature and the fundamental questions of metaphysics.
