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)

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)

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）。

All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understanding which philosophy seeks to achieve. In this book one of the most distinguis...(展开全部)