Making Sense of Things: The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics

by A.W. Moore

Book Overview

This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its possibility, scope, and limits. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with the early modern period, the late modern period in the analytic tradition, and the late modern period in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521616557
• ISBN13: 9780521616553
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 692 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"