Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary

by Helen Beebee (editor), Julian Dodd (Editor)

This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views.Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views Aims to improve the reader's ability to engage critically with philosophical texts, and to use them as a springboard for philosophical thought and writing Introduces readers to the perennial problems of metaphysics and the ways that different analytic philosophers have approached them

Genres: Philosophy

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 27, 2006

Reviews

[Karl Hallbjörnsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A selection of varied texts on modern metaphysics. Including, but not limited to: Peter van Inwagen, Daniel Dennett, Marya Schechtman, Donald Davidson, David Lewis and Saul Kripke. Includes textual exegesis and commentary at the end of each paper, as well as helpful essay questions pertaining to the texts. It's a very methodologically informative introduction to modern metaphysics, jam-packed with interesting thoughts by interesting thinkers.

[Jacob Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent collection with very helpful commentary.