The Faces of Existence: Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics by John F. Post

ISBN: 0801419689

Cornell University Press | 1987

Hardcover | 390 pages

The Faces of Existence: An Essay in Nonreductive Metaphysics presents a rigorous examination of physicalistic materialism and its compatibility with a number of philosophical positions often thought to be at odds with it — including the objectivity of values, the irreducibility of subjective experience, the nature of meaning and metaphor, the normativity of thought, and even theistic interpretations of existence. John F. Post argues that these facets of human life and thought can be understood without reducing them to mere physical components, offering a bold and comprehensive analysis that engages with enduring questions in metaphysics and challenges traditional reductionist accounts of reality.