Download or read book Reading Metaphysics written by Helen Beebee and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2007-01-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views. Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views Aims to improve the reader’s ability to engage critically with philosophical texts, and to use them as a springboard for philosophical thought and writing Introduces readers to the perennial problems of metaphysics and the ways that different analytic philosophers have approached them