Contemporary Metaphysics: Review of David J. Chalmers, Constructing the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, 494 Pages; John Heil, The Universe as We Find It, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, 311 Pages; and Theodore R. Sider, Writing the Book of the World, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011, 318 Pages [Book Review]

Metaphysica 14 (1):143-148 (2013)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Metaphysics is definitely back on the agenda of contemporary philosophy. It is a metaphysics in the full traditional sense, seeking to provide the means to gain knowledge that covers being as a whole, not just parts of it (such as the metaphysics of mind, the metaphysics of values, etc.). Oxford University Press published three books in 2011 and 2012 each of which spells out that ambition. The present review sums up the main topics covered in these books and offers some comments.

Categories

Keywords

DOI

10.1007/s12133-013-0117-2

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 86,507

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Some boundary conditions on embodied agents sharing a common world.John Barresi - 2008 - In Ipke Wachsmuth, Manuela Lenzen & Günther Knoblich (eds.), Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines. Oxford University Press. pp. 29.
Reading novels S. Swain (ed.): Oxford Readings in the greek novel . Pp. X + 412. Oxford: Oxford university press, 1999. Paper, £16.99. Isbn: 0-19-872188-9. S. J. Harrison (ed.): Oxford Readings in the Roman novel . Pp. XXXIX + 337. Oxford: Oxford university press, 1999. Paper, £16.99. Isbn: 0-19-872174-. [REVIEW]S. A. Stephens - 2000 - The Classical Review 50 (02):472-.
Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Robert Jackall. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, vii + 249 pages. [REVIEW]Thomas Donaldson - 1991 - Economics and Philosophy 7 (2):295.
Book review: Jerry L. walls, heaven: The logic of eternal joy, oxford and new York: Oxford university press, 2002, 224 pages, $39.95. [REVIEW]Todd Gooch - 2006 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 59 (2):121-124.
Peter Unger, all the power in the world* (oxford: Oxford university press, 2006. XXIX +640pp.). [REVIEW]John Heil - 2008 - Noûs 42 (2):336–348.
Dean W. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics. Volume 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. [REVIEW]Maria E. Reicher - 2004 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 68 (1):224-227.
Book Review: C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard’s Ethic of Love: Divine Commands and Moral Obligations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, x and 366 pages, $140.00. [REVIEW]Christopher A. P. Nelson - 2006 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 59 (2):125-127.

Analytics

Added to PP
2013-03-10

Downloads
150 (#106,278)

6 months
6 (#161,555)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Michael Esfeld
University of Lausanne

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics.Peter Strawson - 1959 - London, England: Routledge. Edited by Wenfang Wang.
Every thing must go: metaphysics naturalized.James Ladyman & Don Ross - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Don Ross, David Spurrett & John G. Collier.
Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized.James Ladyman & Don Ross - 2007 - In James Ladyman, Don Ross, David Spurrett & John Collier (eds.), Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized. Oxford University Press.
Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics.James Cargile - 1959 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 38 (2):320-323.
Space, Time, and Spacetime.Lawrence Sklar - 1974 - University of California Press.

View all 8 references / Add more references