Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This collection addresses foundational questions about reasons for belief and uses new research to explore traditional epistemological concerns.

This collection addresses foundational questions about reasons for belief and uses new research to explore traditional epistemological concerns.

Argues that sceptical metaphysicians employ shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist.

This book provides a systematic analysis of how Alexandrian Jews interpreted the Bible in light of contemporary Homeric scholarship.

Argues that sceptical metaphysicians employ shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist.

This book provides a systematic analysis of how Alexandrian Jews interpreted the Bible in light of contemporary Homeric scholarship.

This book offers an ethical interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason by establishing the historical connection between the problematic of Temporality in the philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas on the one hand, and the ground-laying of metaphysics in the schematism of Kant's critical philosophy on the other.

This interdisciplinary analysis presents an innovative examination of the nature of pride and humility, including all their slippery nuances and points of connection.

Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology.

 This book draws on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to inform a feminist perspective of social identities.

This book outlines a new conception of the cyborg in terms of consciousness as the parallax gap between physical and digital worlds.

This book offers an analytically rigorous and systematic discussion of possible ways of making metaphysical sense of ineffability.

This book compares two competing theories of human nature: the more traditional theory espoused in different forms by centuries of western philosophy and the newer, Darwinian model.

Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions.

 This book extends philosophy's engagement with the double beyond hierarchized binary oppositions.

Offeringnew critical approaches to Dada as quintessential part of theAvant-Garde, Dada and Existentialism: the Authenticity of Ambiguity reassessesthe movement as a form of (proto-) Existentialist philosophy.

We find "e;vertical"e; relations in many different realms, whether between atoms and molecules, words and sentences, neurons and brains, or individuals and societies.

Disease is everywhere.

This book provides close examination of ontology and the work of Professor Barry Smith, one of the most prolific philosophers of the modern day.

Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once.

This book explores the metaphysical assumptions that underlie different interpretations of the relationship between religion and the secular, faith and reason, and transcendence and immanence.

Scott Yenor argues that David Hume's reputation as a skeptic is greatly exaggerated and that Hume's skepticism is a moment leading Hume to defend common life philosophy and the humane commercial republic.

The book explores concepts throughout the history of philosophy that suggest the possibility of unconscious thought and lay the foundation for ideas of unconscious thought in modern philosophy and psychoanalysis.

The 'death' of German Idealism has been decriedinnumerable times since its revolutionary inception, whether it be by the 19th-centurycritique of Western metaphysics, phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy,or analytic philosophy.

 This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between phenomenology and the natural sciences.

This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes.

Metaphysics and Music in Adorno and Heidegger explains how two notoriously opposed German philosophers share a rethinking of the possibility of metaphysics via notions of music and waiting.

This unique Handbook provides a sophisticated, scholarly overview of the most advanced thought regarding the idea of life after death.

This book reassesses the origins, development and legacy of the philosophy of the British idealists, demonstrating the enduring relevance of their thought for the modern discipline.

For a long time, commentators viewed Sartre as one of Kant's significant twentieth-century critics.

This book offers an interpretation of certain Hegelian concepts, and their relevance to various themes in contemporary philosophy, which will allow for a non-metaphysical understanding of his thought, further strengthening his relevance to philosophy today by placing him in the midst of current debates.

Paul Tillich's Philosophical Theology takes up the challenge as to whether his thought remains relevant fifty years after his death.

Crossing the boundaries between 'continental' and 'analytic' philosophical approaches, this book proposes a naturalistic revision of the mathematical ontology of Alain Badiou, establishing links with structuralist projects in the philosophy of science and mathematics.

This book highlights the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings on psychology and psychological phenomena for the historical development of contemporary psychology.

Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival arguments that purport to show that data collected from ostensibly paranormal phenomena constitute good evidence for the survival of the self after death.

Drawing from classical myth, the history of philosophy, literature, film, music, and painting, Workman connects the artistic claims of Chaucer and tests them against similar gestures in the history of philosophy and literature.

Considerations about the existence and nature of God are given far too much weight in contemporary discussions of philosophy of religion.

A Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism.

This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective.

The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines.

The first book in English to offer an extended comparative analysis of Heidegger and Deleuze.

Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language.

Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics is a collection of new and cutting-edge essays by prominent Aristotle scholars and Aristotelian philosophers on themes in ontology, causation, modality, essentialism, the metaphysics of life, natural theology, and scientific and philosophical methodology.

The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology.

The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism features essays from leading scholars on German philosophy.

Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses.

Accessible and wide-ranging, this introduction to contemporary Philosophy of Action guides the reader through the major views and arguments.

This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities.

An investigatation of the influence of psychology and early phenomenology on the origins of analytic philosophy.