Offers a novel approach to thinking about a number of longstanding problems in metaphysics, issues that have persisted throughout the history of philosophy Offers an account of metaphysics that serves as an introduction both to issues in metaphysics as well as to some prominent approaches found in analytic as well as continental philosophy Provides a unique way of thinking abou...(展开全部)

Offers a novel approach to thinking about a number of longstanding problems in metaphysics, issues that have persisted throughout the history of philosophy Offers an account of metaphysics that serves as an introduction both to issues in metaphysics as well as to some prominent approaches found in analytic as well as continental philosophy Provides a unique way of thinking abou...(展开全部)

Bertrand Russell is concerned in this book with the foundations of knowledge. He approaches his subject through a discussion of language, the relationships of truth to experience and an investigation into how knowledge of the structure of language helps our understanding of the structure of the world.

Metaphysics: An Introduction combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics, connecting the abstract nature of metaphysics with the real world. Topics covered include: ■ Basic logic for metaphysics ■ An introduction to ontolo...(展开全部)

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects. One of the most comprehensive and authoritative me...(展开全部)

Metaphysics: An Introduction, Second Edition combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics, connecting the abstract nature of metaphysics with the real world. Topics covered include: basic logic for metaphysics an introducti...(展开全部)

"Over the last several decades, metaphysics has been a particularly active and productive area of philosophy. Alyssa Ney's Metaphysics: An Introduction offers a superb introduction to this exciting field, covering the issues, claims, and arguments on fundamental topics, such as existence and persistence, material object, causation, modality, and the nature of metaphysics. While...(展开全部)

阿莉莎·奈伊（Alyssa Ney），加州大学戴维斯分校（UC Davis）哲学系前教授，现为德国慕尼黑大学（LMU Munich）哲学、科学哲学和宗教研究系教授，研究方向为形而上学、心灵哲学 和物理学哲学 ，著有《形而上学导论》（Metaphysics: An Introduction ，2014，2023）和《波函数里的世 界》（The World in the Wave Function: A Metaphysics for Quantum Physics，2021）等书。 译者简介： 谢沛宏，维也纳大学（University of Vienna）哲学博士在读，研究领域为形而上学、元哲学和科学哲学，另有译作《威廉斯论评集：1959-2002》（合译）。

Metaphysics: An Introduction combines comprehensive coverage of the core elements of metaphysics with contemporary and lively debates within the subject. It provides a rigorous and yet accessible overview of a rich array of topics, connecting the abstract nature of metaphysics with the real world. Topics covered include: ■ Basic logic for metaphysics ■ An introduction to ontolo...(展开全部)

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in metaphysics. In addition to updated material from the first edition, it presents entirely new sections on ontology and the metaphysics of material objects. One of the most comprehensive and authoritative me...(展开全部)