Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen
John A. Keller
Abstract
In The Philosophy of Philosophy, Timothy Williamson wrote that Peter van Inwagen’s work is among the “liveliest, exactest, and most creative…of the final third of the 20th Century.” This collection of original essays addresses some of the most important and interesting themes from van Inwagen’s work, with selected replies by van Inwagen himself. It is no accident that the themes of this volume are also some of the most cutting-edge and important topics in philosophy today. The volume contains rigorous, original, but readable essays, by some of the most prominent living philosophers, on free wi ... More
In The Philosophy of Philosophy, Timothy Williamson wrote that Peter van Inwagen’s work is among the “liveliest, exactest, and most creative…of the final third of the 20th Century.” This collection of original essays addresses some of the most important and interesting themes from van Inwagen’s work, with selected replies by van Inwagen himself. It is no accident that the themes of this volume are also some of the most cutting-edge and important topics in philosophy today. The volume contains rigorous, original, but readable essays, by some of the most prominent living philosophers, on free will, the structure of ordinary objects, time travel, the problem of evil, God and evolution, and the nature of philosophical success. As such, it will be appealing to readers with diverse interests, and will be essential reading for those working on free will, relational vs constituent ontologies, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of philosophy.
Keywords:
Van Inwagen,
metaphysics,
free will,
meta-philosophy,
philosophy of religion,
being,
ontology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198715702 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198715702.001.0001 |