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VOLUME 13
April 29, 2010
Physics and Metaphysics
EDITED BY
CLAUDIO CALOSI |
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It is notoriously difficult to define Metaphysics, its content, its method, its language, its scope. Thus I will not even try an attempt here. I will rest content to point out some widely held characterizations. A long and highly influential tradition maintains that Metaphysics is the study of being qua being. It is concerned with what there is, what kind of things are the things that there are, what properties do they have, how they are related. In this sense Metaphysics deals with the more general features of reality, the most fundamental categories of being. [read more] |
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Papers
Book Reviews
| REVIEWER |
TITLE AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK |
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| Bradley Monton |
Scientific Representation:
Paradoxes of Perspective - Bastiaan C. van Fraassen |
[PDF - 100kb] |
| Lorenzo Del Savio |
Persistence and Spacetime - Yuri Balashov |
[PDF - 152kb] |
| Giovanni Casini |
Identity in Physics: A Historical,
Philosophical and Formal Analysis - Steven French and Decio Krause |
[PDF - 104kb] |
| Emanuele Coppola |
The Metaphysics Within Physics - Tim Maudlin |
[PDF - 160kb] |
| Umberto Maionchi |
Anaximander - Carlo Rovelli |
[PDF - 128kb] |
Commentaries
| AUTHOR |
TITLE OF THE CRITICAL NOTICE - TITLE OF THE BOOK |
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| Jeffrey Barrett |
A Structural Interpretation
of Pure Wave Mechanics |
[PDF - 236kb] |
| Daniel Nolan |
Metaphysical Language, Ordinary Language and Peter van Inwagen's Material Beings |
[PDF - 112kb] |
| Giuliano Torrengo |
The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe - Michael Lockwood |
[PDF - 164kb] |
| James Weatherall |
General Relativity from A to B - Robert Geroch |
[PDF - 172kb] |
Interviews
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SCHOLAR INTERVIEWED |
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Duccio Manetti
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Silvano Zipoli Caiani |
Interview with Adolf Grünbaum |
[PDF - 124kb] |
Reports
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EVENT REVIEWED |
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| Michele Pasin |
The Third Interdisciplinary Ontology Conference - Tokyo (Japan), 27-28 February 2010 |
[PDF - 68kb] |
| Pierluigi Graziani |
Winter School: "Open Problems in Philosophy of Sciences" - Cesena (Italy), 15-17 April 2010 |
[PDF - 84kb] |
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