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Author(s): Earl Conee, Theodore Sider
ISBN(s): 9780198724049, 0198724047
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0198724047 
ISBN 13: 9780198724049
Author: Earl Conee, Theodore Sider

Riddles of Existence makes metaphysics genuinely accessible, even fun. Its lively, informal style brings the riddles to life and shows how stimulating they can be to think about. No philosophical background is required to enjoy this book. It is ideal for beginning students. Anyone wanting to think about life’s most profound questions will find Riddles of Existence provocative and entertaining. This new edition is updated throughout, and features two extra, specially written chapters: one on metaphysical questions to do with morality, and the other on questions about the nature of metaphysics itself.

Riddles of Existence A Guided Tour of Metaphysics 2nd Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Personal Identity

  • The Concept of Personal Identity

  • The Soul

  • Spatiotemporal Continuity and the Case of the Prince and the Cobbler

  • Psychological Continuity and the Problem of Duplication

  • Radical Solutions to the Problem of Duplication

Chapter 2: Fatalism

  • Introduction

  • The Sea Battle

  • Past Predictions

  • Necessary Conditions

  • God Knows

  • A Final Note

Chapter 3: Time

  • The Flow of Time

  • The Space‐Time Theory

  • Arguments Against the Space‐Time Theory: Change, Motion, Causes

Chapter 4: God

  • Getting It All Started

  • Designing the World

  • Conceptually Guaranteeing God

  • Putting it All Together

Chapter 5: Why Not Nothing?

  • Introduction

  • What is the Question?

  • Do We Get the Question?

  • Necessitarianism

  • Godly Necessitarianism

  • Ontological Arguments for a Necessary Being

  • Ungodly Necessitarianism

  • Minimal Contingency

  • Anthropic Explanation

  • Godly Explanation

  • Tendentious Explanation

  • Statistical Explanation

  • Conclusion

Chapter 6: Free Will and Determinism

  • The Problem

  • Hard Determinism

  • Libertarianism

  • Interlude: Quantum Mechanics

  • Compatibilism

Chapter 7: Constitution

  • The Antinomy of Constitution

  • Assumptions of the Antinomy

  • The Just‐Matter Theory

  • The Takeover Theory

  • Nihilism

  • Cohabitation

  • Four‐Dimensionalism

Chapter 8: Universals

  • Introduction

  • Positive Reasons

  • Doubts

  • A Final Ground for Doubt

  • Alternatives

  • Conclusion

Chapter 9: Possibility and Necessity

  • The Problem of Possibility and Necessity

  • Natural Possibility and Necessity

  • Absolute Possibility and Necessity

Chapter 10: The Metaphysics of Ethics (by Earl Conee)

  • Right and Wrong

  • Realism

  • Naturalism

  • Non‐Nature

  • New Naturalism

  • Troubling Emotional Involvement

  • Emotivism

  • Ethical Errors

  • Conclusion

Chapter 11: What is Metaphysics?

  • Introduction

  • Being qua Being

  • First Principles

  • Appearances vs Ultimate Reality

  • Ultimate Explanations

  • Basic Necessities and Possibilities

  • Taking Stock

  • Some Concluding Questions

Chapter 12: Metametaphysics

  • Why Care?

  • How Can We Know?

  • What’s the Difference?

  • Conclusion

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