Metaphysics. Modern introduction. LAKS M.J., Crisp T.M.

The book is a detailed introduction to metaphysics - the section of philosophy, striving to answer the question of what the main types of existing things are and how they relate to each other. For example, are the past and future real or is there only the present? The authors analyze the development of discussions and modern views on topics such as the problem of universals, part and the whole, necessity and possibility, the existence of objects in time, etc. The reader will get acquainted with various theories of causal relationships and learn about rational grounds to consider that metaphysics can discover We are the structure of being.

The book includes an extensive bibliography and a list of literature for further study.

The publication will be useful both to those who only start studying metaphysics and specialists.