A World of States of Affairs
Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
- Author: D. M. Armstrong, University of Sydney
- Date Published: March 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521589482
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In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesises but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. All these, it is argued, find their place and can be understood inside a scheme of states of affairs. This is a comprehensive and rigorously this-worldly account of the most general features of reality, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective, and it will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.
Read more- Author is one of the most eminent philosophers in the world
- This book brings together - and develops - his work over the last twenty years
- Unlike most works of analytic philosophy, this is a systematic and comprehensive account of its chosen field
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'Thanks to Armstrong's excellent book, we know much better than before what lies ahead if we choose truthmaking and forsake combinatorialism.' David Lewis, The Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'A World of States of Affairs is not only a fitting summation of Armstrong's contribution to metaphysics over the last twenty years, it is also an important contribution to the contemporary debate.' Mind
'The Armstrong approach to metaphysics is presented clearly and comprehensively.' Philosophy
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- Date Published: March 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521589482
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 138 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.464kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Some preliminary doctrines
3. Properties I
4. Properties II
5. Powers and dispositions
6. Relations
7. Particulars
8. States of affairs
9. Independence
10. Modality
11. Numbers
12. Classes
13. Totality states of affairs
14. Singular causation
15. Laws I
16. Laws II
17. The unity of the world.
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