New Essays in Metaphysics

Robert C. Neville is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

• Editor's Introduction Logos, Mythos, Chaos: Metaphysics as the Quest for DiversityDavid L. Hall The Primacy of the MesocosmGeorge Allan Copernican MetaphysicsNicholas Capaldi Perceived Worlds Are Interpreted WorldsPatrick A. Heelan Toward Experiential Metaphysics: Radical TemporalismCharles M. Sherover Possibilities and ConstraintsJay Schulkin Moral Order and the Constraints of Agency: Toward a New Metaphysics of MoralsGeorge R. Lucas The Civilizing of EnterpriseWilliam M. Sullivan The First Metaphysics: Revisioning PlatoAntonio T. de Nicolas Creativity in a Future KeyLewis S. Ford God the SaviorElizabeth M. Kraus Metaphor, Analogy, and the Nature of TruthCarl G. Vaught Relations, Indeterminacy, and IntelligibilityBrian John Martine Sketch of a SystemRobert C. Neville The Spiral of ReflectionDavid Weissman

"...a straightforward and unpretentious sampler of what metaphysical positions one might hold now that the anti-metaphysical stances of a generation ago have been surpassed."—Donald Phillip Verene, Emory University"Metaphysics has been unduly neglected in our 'age of analysis.' The appearance of this new generation of philosophers in a single volume ought to convince all readers that speculative metaphysics is alive and well in America." —Andrew J. Reck, Tulane University" 'Metaphysics' is the name of a very important branch, really the central branch, of philosophy—important in itself and important for science and theology, in different ways. This book is useful as a sampling of recent philosophizing of a daring sort. It forces one to face the lack of consensus that seems inevitable, given freedom of discussion in primary philosophy."—Charles Hartshorne, University of Texas at Austin