What Is Metaphysics?

by John Heil

Book Overview

If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or presuppositions, which allow us to make sense of it.

Drawing on examples from art, science, and daily life, John Heil shows how metaphysics begins in questioning our everyday...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509546499
• ISBN13: 9781509546497
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"