The Atlas of Reality - A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics

The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key topics, concepts, and guiding principles of metaphysics.

• Represents the most comprehensive guide to metaphysics available today
• Offers authoritative coverage of the full range of topics that comprise the field of metaphysics in an accessible manner while considering competing views
• Explores key concepts such as space, time, powers, universals, and composition with clarity and depth
• Articulates coherent packages of metaphysical theses that include neo-Aristotelian, Quinean, Armstrongian, and neo-Humean
• Carefully tracks the use of common assumptions and methodological principles in metaphysics

ROBERT C. KOONS is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (1993) and Realism Regained (2000), co-author of Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (with Tim Pickavance, 2014), and co-editor of The Waning of Materialism (with George Bealer, 2010).
TIMOTHY PICKAVANCEis an Associate Professor and Chair of the Talbot Department of Philosophy at Biola University. He is co-author of Metaphysics: The Fundamentals (with Robert Koons, 2014).