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Varieties of Things

Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics

Varieties of Things( )
Author: MacDonald, Cynthia
ISBN:978-0-470-70016-7
Publication Date:May 2008
Publisher:John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Imprint:Wiley-Blackwell
Book Format:Digital download
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Book Description:

Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics is about some of the most fundamental kinds of things that there are; the things that we encounter in everyday experience.

  • A book about the things that we encounter in everyday experience.
  • Contains a thorough and accessible discussion of the nature and aims of metaphysics.
  • Examines a wide range of ontological categories, including both particulars and universals.
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Book Details
Pages:290
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.533 x 9.372 x 0.995 Inches
Book Weight:1.375 Pounds
Author Biography
MacDonald, Cynthia (Author)
Cynthia MacDonald was born in New York City on February 2, 1928. She was educated at the Brearley School, the Mannes School of Music, Bennington and Sara Lawrence College. She was an opera singer, who won the San Francisco Opera Auditions and sang on CBC Radio. After getting married, she became a poet. During her lifetime, she published six volumes of poetry including Alternate Means of Transport, Living Wills: New and Selected Poems, and I Can't Remember: Poems. She taught at Sarah Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University, and in 1979, she cofounded the University of Houston graduate creative writing program. She studied Freudian psychoanalysis at the Houston- Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute. She later joined the faculty of the Institute and maintained a psychoanalytic practice. She died on August 3, 2015 at the age of 87 after living with Alzheimer's for more than 10 years.

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