
Peter van Inwagen
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John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. Author of Ontology, Identity, and Modality and others.
Primary Contributions (8)

Reality of the external world, in modern Western philosophy, a central problem of metaphysics (one of the four main branches of philosophy, the others being logic, ethics, and epistemology). The reality of the external world is among a handful of fundamental issues that together defined the nature…
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