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Person and object: a metaphysical study

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Person and Object is a powerful study in metaphysics. The book has four chapters and five appendices (though one is just a summary of his definitions). Chapters and appendices are free standing. The topics are predominantly metaphysical--Chisholm addresses agency, identity through time, mereological essentialism, four-dimensionalism, ontology, etc. But many of the discussions enter epistemological questions as well (e.g. the first chapter, the fourth appendix). Throughout, Chisholm demonstrates a keen ability to make distinctions, and has the helpful habit of formalizing many of his definitions.
One of the features that's particularly nice about this book is the way Chisholm addresses both philosophical ideas and also how it is one is to address philosophical ideas. (This is most clearly seen in his useful Introduction.)

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110 CHI p

Publisher

Illinois : Open Court., 1979

Collation

230p.; 22 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-87548-341-0

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110

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METAPHYSICS

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