Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham. He is also Head of the School of Humanities and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has written many papers and books in metaphysics, including a number of more popular works intended for a non-specialist audience including articles in "Times Higher Education magazine", encyclopaedias, and magazines. His most famous book is "Dispositions" (Oxford, 1998) but he also authored "Laws in Nature" (Routledge, 2004), "Getting Causes from Powers" (with Rani Lill Anjum, Oxford, 2011) and "Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotions" (Routledge, 2011). He is a frequent public speaker at both academic conferences and more popular events and has delivered talks in around 30 countries.
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 colours 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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评分短评写不下了就扔到这里。 简短、准确、有趣的入门书。不仅有助于快速get各种概念(困惑我好久的numerical、substance等等终于直观了不少),各种问题的性质,各个分支的源流,更重要的是勾勒了形而上学的大图景:它是如何开脑洞去认识世界的。令人惊讶的是形而上学其实一直和...
评分短评写不下了就扔到这里。 简短、准确、有趣的入门书。不仅有助于快速get各种概念(困惑我好久的numerical、substance等等终于直观了不少),各种问题的性质,各个分支的源流,更重要的是勾勒了形而上学的大图景:它是如何开脑洞去认识世界的。令人惊讶的是形而上学其实一直和...
评分短评写不下了就扔到这里。 简短、准确、有趣的入门书。不仅有助于快速get各种概念(困惑我好久的numerical、substance等等终于直观了不少),各种问题的性质,各个分支的源流,更重要的是勾勒了形而上学的大图景:它是如何开脑洞去认识世界的。令人惊讶的是形而上学其实一直和...
评分短评写不下了就扔到这里。 简短、准确、有趣的入门书。不仅有助于快速get各种概念(困惑我好久的numerical、substance等等终于直观了不少),各种问题的性质,各个分支的源流,更重要的是勾勒了形而上学的大图景:它是如何开脑洞去认识世界的。令人惊讶的是形而上学其实一直和...
哲学是智慧的摇摆,建议哲学家对科学尽量不要保持一种一知半解又喜欢指点一二的态度
评分“In that case, we don’t do metaphysics so that we can stay healthy and wealthy: we want to stay healthy and wealthy so that we can do metaphysics.”
评分#20-022 jargon-free!
评分重要的不是答案,而是问题和思路。毕竟是为了探究自然的本质。
评分哲学是智慧的摇摆,建议哲学家对科学尽量不要保持一种一知半解又喜欢指点一二的态度
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