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Metaphysics
- Author
- Stephen Mumford
- Narrator
- Russ Williams
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 29 September 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or religious. For others it is known through the metaphysical poets who talk of love and spirituality.
This Very Short Introduction goes right to the heart of the matter, getting to the basic and most important questions of metaphysical thought in order to understand the theory: What are objects? Do colors and shapes have some form of existence? What is it for one thing to cause another rather than just being associated with it? What is possible? Does time pass?
By using these questions to initiate thought about the basic issues around substance, properties, changes, causes, possibilities, time, personal identity, nothingness, and emergentism, Stephen Mumford provides a clear and simple path through this analytical tradition at the core of philosophical thought.
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Details
- Author
- Stephen Mumford
- Narrator
- Russ Williams
- Duration
- 4 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9798318585708
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy
Synopsis
Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for many people yet it is associated with being complex and abstract. For some it is associated with the mystical or religious. For others it is known through the metaphysical poets who talk of love and spirituality.This Very Short Introduction goes right to the heart of the matter, getting to the basic and most important questions of metaphysical thought in order to understand the theory: What are objects? Do colors and shapes have some form of existence? What is it for one thing to cause another rather than just being associated with it? What is possible? Does time pass?By using these questions to initiate thought about the basic issues around substance, properties, changes, causes, possibilities, time, personal identity, nothingness, and emergentism, Stephen Mumford provides a clear and simple path through this analytical tradition at the core of philosophical thought.
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