The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415493963)

The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is an outstanding, comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes, thinkers, and issues in metaphysics. The Companion features over fifty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars which are organized into three clear parts:

• History of Metaphysics
• Ontology
• Metaphysics and Science.

Each section features an introduction which places the range of essays in context, while an extensive glossary allows easy reference to key terms and definitions. The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is essential reading for students of philosophy and anyone interested in surveying the central topics and problems in metaphysics from causation to vagueness and from Plato and Aristotle to the present-day.

Author: Robin Le Poidevin
ISBN-10: 041549396X
ISBN-13: 9780415493963
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2011
Pages: 632
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.72h x 6.96w x 1.33d