Description
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface to the Fifth Edition
- 1 Introduction
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- Part I: The Way the World Is
- Introduction to Part I
- Notes
- 2 Individuality
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 3 Externality
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 4 Temporality
- Step 1: The Initial Challenge
- Step 2: The Obvious (and Only Possible) Reply to the Initial Challenge
- Step 3: McTaggart’s Rejoinder to the Obvious Reply
- Notes
- 5 Objectivity
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Note
- Part II: Why the World Is
- 6 Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 7 Necessary Being: The Cosmological Argument
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- Part III: The Inhabitants of the World
- 8 What Rational Beings Are There?
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 9 The Place of Rational beings in the World: Design and Purpose
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 10 The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Physicalism
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 11 The Nature of Rational Beings: Dualism and Personal Identity
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 12 The Powers of Rational Beings: Freedom of the Will
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Notes
- 13 Concluding Meditation
- Notes
- Coda Being
- Are There Things That Do Not Exist?
- Are There Features?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
