Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Substance and the Fundamentality of the Familiar explicates and defends a novel neo-Aristotelian account of the structure of material objects.

In answering the question of life's meaning, the African perspective is only just beginning to emerge.

The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy, especially philosophy of language and logic.

In this collection of new and previously published essays, noted philosopher Eric Schliesser offers new interpretations of the signifance of Isaac Newton's metaphysics on his physics and the subsequent development of philosophy more broadly.

The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology provides a guide to the mystical element of Christianity as a theological phenomenon.

In this small book, theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel prize 1999), philosopher Emanuele Severino (Lincei Academician), and theologian Piero Coda (Pontifical Lateran University) confront one another on a topic that lies at the roots of quantum mechanics and at the origin of Western thought: Determinism and Free Will.

Offers an accessible yet cutting-edge tour of the many conceptual interconnections between physics and computer science.

Metaphysics deals with truth, existence and goodness; it also considers change, time and causation, which characterise the physical world, and thought and language.

Metaphysics: The Fundamentals presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics.

Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called 'worldedness' that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content.

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Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris.

The volume takes on the much-needed task of describing and explaining the nature of the relations and interactions between mind, language and action in defining mentality.

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

Rupert Sheldrake hat mit dem "Wissenschaftswahn" ein Standardwerk geschaffen – eine schlagkräftige Antwort auf den "Gotteswahn" von Richard Dawkins.

From Finding to Making offers the first detailed discussion of the relationship between Marxism and pragmatism.

This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E.

This book examines the philosophies of nature of the early Greek thinkers and argues that a significant and thoroughgoing shift is required in our understanding of them.

This Element explores the metaphysical enterprise of truthmaking, which studies how truth depends upon ontology.

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

The History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand is a comprehensive account of the historical development of philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, from the establishment of the first Philosophy Chair in Australasia in 1886 at the University of Melbourne to the current burgeoning of Australasian philosophy.

Much effort in recent philosophy has been devoted to attacking the metaphysics of the subject.

A wide-ranging study of the nature of perception, discussing touch, hearing and vision, and bringing together analytic and continental approaches.

Focusing on the topics of self-awareness, temporality, and alterity, this anthology contains contributions by prominent phenomenologists from Germany, Belgium, France, Japan, USA, Canada and Denmark, all addressing questions very much in the center of current phenomenological debate.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) is widely regarded as one of the most original and important philosophers of the twentieth century.

The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally.

Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault.

No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way.

Nietzsche's thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions.

The current volume of the Parmenides Series "e;On Thinking"e; addresses our deepest and most personal experience of the world, the experience of "e;the present,"e; from a modern perspective combining physics and philosophy.

Leibniz' Briefwechsel mit dem gelehrten Jesuitenpater Barthélemy Des Bosses in den Jahren 1706–1716 zählt zu den bedeutendsten Zeugnissen seiner Metaphysik.

Provides a minimal metaphysics for scientific practice, yielding new accounts of lawhood, causation and reduction.

Kierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings.

This engaging volume sheds light on the central role the turn to the body plays in the philosophies of Spinoza and Nietzsche, providing an ideal starting point for understanding their work.

John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life.

This careful examination of properties commonly attributed to God is essential background to any arguments about the existence of God.

One of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind.

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.

Does God Matter?