Description
- Includes revisions to existing encyclopedic entries
- Features more than 30 all-new "A to Z" entries
- Offers a section of in-depth, essays from renowned metaphysicians
- Provides the most complete and up-to-date reference guide for students and professionals alike
About the Author
The Editors
Jaegwon Kim is William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. His publications include a number of influential papers in metaphysics and philosophy of mind, and the books Supervenience and Mind (1993), Mind in a Physical World (1998), Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005), and Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edn. (2006). He is co-editor of Blackwell's Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edn. (2008).
Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. With Jonathan Dancy he is also co-editor of another volume in the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series: A Companion to Epistemology (1993); and, with Laurence BonJour, of Epistemic Justification (2003), a volume in the Blackwell Great Debates in Philosophy series. His other publications include Knowledge in Perspective (1991), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and Reflective Knowledge (2009).
Gary S. Rosenkrantz is Professor and Head, Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A practicing metaphysician for more than 30 years, Professor Rosenkrantz's published books include Haecceity: An Ontological Essay (1993), and three works co-authored with Joshua Hoffman: Substance Among Other Categories (1994), Substance: Its Nature and Existence (1996), and The Divine Attributes (2002).
Reviews
?This is a resource no metaphysician in the Anglo-American tradition will want to do without. Summing Up: Essential.? (CHOICE, October 2009)
Book Information
ISBN 9781405152983
Author Jaekwon Kim
Format Hardback
Page Count 680
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 1293g
Dimensions(mm) 249mm * 168mm * 46mm
