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020 _a9781405123679
082 _a110 BEE
100 _aBeebee, Helen
245 _aReading Metaphysics: Selected Texts With Interactive Commentary
260 _bBlackwell Publishing
_c2007
_aMalden
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520 _aThis 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
650 _aMetaphysics
700 _aDodd, Julian
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