Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

The fullest account ever written of the fascinating nexus between Islam and Time, this is a major contribution to the wider history of ideas and religion.

Medieval debates over "e;divine creation"e; are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "e;Intelligent Design"e; Creationists and Evolutionists.

What is truth?

At the turn of the century Idealism was perhaps the leading school of philosophy in the English-speaking world.

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world.

The research literature on causal attribution and social cognition generally consists of many fascinating but fragmented and superficial phenomena.

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility.

Sounds and Perception is a collection of original essays on auditory perception and the nature of sounds - an emerging area of interest in the philosophy of mind and perception, and in the metaphysics of sensible qualities.

Examining the relationship between perception and events, this highly significant volume contributes several important ideas to the "e;bridge"e; between modern science and perennial wisdom teachings.

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime.

Real Essentialism presents a comprehensive defence of neo-Aristotelian essentialism.

Der vierte Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält die deutsche Übersetzung der Politik.

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This collection addresses metaphysical issues at the intersection between philosophy and science.

Recently, psychologists and neurobiologists have conducted experiments taken to show that human beings do not have free will.

This book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as duration, stretches instead of passes.

This book originated in a symposium on business ethics that took place in the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Canterbury in September of 1997.

One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism.

A team of leading philosophers presents original work on theories of parthood and of location.

In this revised and updated edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in all philosophy: David Hume's work on causation.

The theory of sign and proof is an essential component of Stoic epistemology.

In thinking about ontology as the study of being or what fundamentally exists, we can adopt an ontology that either takes substances or processes as primary.

If forced to state Feuerbach's philosophical genealogy, one would have to say that he was son of Hegel, father of Marx, and half-brother of Comte.

This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value?

This book proposes a different perspective on actual queries within the field of ontology.

In Being and Reason, Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in Spinoza, metaphysical notions are entangled with cognitive, logical, and epistemic ones.

Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel's entire logic of being.

Truth is in trouble.

Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a change in that object's ontological status has been a key philosophical concept throughout history.

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues.

Legal argumentation is a distinctively multidisciplinary field of inquiry.

In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H.

Bertrand Russell famously quipped that he didn't believe in God for the same reason that he didn't believe in a teapot in orbit between the earth and Mars: it is a bizarre assertion for which no evidence can be provided.

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre's updated and substantially revised fourth edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction.

The Parmenides is notorious for the criticisms it directs against Plato's own Theory of Forms, as presented in the middle period.

By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being.

In der »Fünften metaphysischen Disputation« behandelt Suárez (1548–1617) die Definition der Individualität, das metaphysische Individuationsprinzip (Individualdifferenz) und das physische Individuationsprinzip der Substanzen und Akzidentien.

The doctrine of the atonement is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity.

This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy.