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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2010
Print publication year:
1997
Online ISBN:
9780511583308
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583308
Subjects:
Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy: General Interest, Ethics, Philosophy
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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Book description

In this important study D. M. Armstrong offers a comprehensive system of analytical metaphysics that synthesises but also develops his thinking over the last twenty years. Armstrong's analysis, which acknowledges the 'logical atomism' of Russell and Wittgenstein, makes facts (or states of affairs, as the author calls them) the fundamental constituents of the world, examining properties, relations, numbers, classes, possibility and necessity, dispositions, causes and laws. All these, it is argued, find their place and can be understood inside a scheme of states of affairs. This is a comprehensive and rigorously this-worldly account of the most general features of reality, argued from a distinctive philosophical perspective, and it will appeal to a wide readership in analytical philosophy.

Reviews

‘Thanks to Armstrong’s excellent book, we know much better than before what lies ahead if we choose truthmaking and forsake combinatorialism.’

David Lewis Source: The Times Literary Supplement

‘A World of States of Affairs is not only a fitting summation of Armstrong’s contribution to metaphysics over the last twenty years, it is also an important contribution to the contemporary debate.’

Source: Mind

‘The Armstrong approach to metaphysics is presented clearly and comprehensively.’

Source: Philosophy

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