Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Metaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist?

Explicitness is one of the fundamental mysteries in which our lives are wrapped.

This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms, especially song.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the foundations of spacetime physics.

Against the backdrop of a historical debate between science and philosophy with regard to the nature of time, this book argues that our commonsense understanding of time is inadequate-especially for education.

God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism is a defense of God's aseity and unique status as the Creator of all things apart from Himself in the face of the challenge posed by mathematical Platonism.

This book uses mathematical models of language to explain why there are certain gaps in language: things that we might expect to be able to say but can't.

Composition is the relation between a whole and its parts--the parts are said to compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts.

In den 16 Quaestionen zur Erörterung der Frage nach dem Ursprung und dem Wesen des Schlechten und Bösen in der Welt und im Handeln der Menschen, also des Übels, versucht Thomas zu zeigen, dass das Übel (ipsum malum) nicht als die andere Seite oder der Antipode des Guten aufzufassen ist, sondern als eine akzidentiell bewirkte Verfehlung des Guten, nach dem alles strebt: Das Übel wirkt nicht aus eigener Kraft, der wir ausgeliefert sind und der wir begegnen müssen, sondern es ist die Folge falschen Handelns - ein vermeidbarer Defekt.

This book explores the role of time in rational agency and practical reasoning.

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting.

As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways.

Featuring contributions by leading academics this collection is a companion to one of the most intricate of Deleuze's philosophical texts, articulating Leibnizian thought within the context of Baroque expressionism, characterized by its interdisciplinary approach to philosophy.

Die Generales Inquisitiones von 1686 stellen die wichtigste geschlossene Arbeit Leibniz' zu Fragen der Logik dar.

For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic: the nature of truth and the value of truth.

First published in 1935, The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico is a succinct biography of the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico.

Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga.

The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time.

This book reconnoiters the appearances of the exceptional in Plato: as erotic desire (in the Symposium and Phaedrus), as the good city (Republic), and as the philosopher (Ion, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman).

This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role.

The German philosopher Robert Spaemann provides an important contribution to a number of contemporary debates in philosophy and theology, opening up possibilities for conversation between these disciplines.

Explores what it takes for ways of thinking and talking about the ways things exist over time, to be true.

Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), translated for the first time into English by William Haver.

Possibility offers a new analysis of the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity, one that does not rely on any sort of 'possible worlds'.

Rafael Aragüés dringt mit diesem Buch in den Kern des Hegelschen Idealismus ein.

This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.

Combining classic philosophical ideas with groundbreaking recent developments in ontology, Lawson proposes a new ontology of technology, spanning several disciplines.

There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place in morality.

Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien.

This book provides the first full length treatment of the nature and function of freedom within the work of Henri Bergson.

There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up.

This wide-ranging collection of essays explores the nature of logic and the key issues and debates in the metaphysics of logic.

This edited volume examines women's voices in phenomenology, many of which had a formative impact on the movement but have be kept relatively silent for many years.

A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists.

Contemporary interest in realism and naturalism, emerging under the banner of speculative or new realism, has prompted continentally-trained philosophers to consider a number of texts from the canon of analytic philosophy.

Lowe investigates the forms of thought, showing how this study is crucial to understanding the powers of the intellect.

I thought that you as reader would enjoy this writing on the great dignity of the human soul.

Henry E.

This book endeavors to fill the conceptual gap in theorizing about embodied cognition.

The question of the proper role of metaphysics in philosophy of science is both significant and contentious.

In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity.

In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly.