Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This is the first of two volumes on belief and counterfactuals.

There have long been controversies about how it is that minds can fit into a physical universe.

This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media.

This is the first systematic student introduction to metametaphysics, examining the nature, foundations and methodology of metaphysical inquiry.

This volume is about the most mind-boggling sacrament of the Christian faith, also referred to as the Sacrament of the Altar, the Eucharist: in its Roman Catholic interpretation, the conversion of the substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ for Holy Communion.

This book begins with a survey of various readings of Locke as a materialist, as a substance dualist, and as a property dualist, and demonstrates that these inconsistent interpretations result from a general failure of modern commentators to notice the significance of Locke's 'mind-body nominalism'.

This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011).

This fascinating new study by Mark Asquith offers an original approach to Hardy's art as a novelist and entirely new readings of certain musical scenes in Hardy's works.

For most of the twentieth century, philosophers have explored the nature and extent of our knowledge-especially our knowledge of the world grounded in sense-perceptual experience.

Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division courses.

Questions about perception remain some of the most difficult and insoluble in both epistemology and in the philosophy of mind.

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood via the A series/B series distinction.

In this book, Christopher Evan Franklin develops and defends a novel version of event-causal libertarianism.

This bold and original work of philosophy presents an exciting new picture of concrete reality.

The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters.

What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions?

Was macht uns zu dem, wer wir sind?

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research within philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts.

How does our conception of possibility contribute to our understanding of self and world?

Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.

Weakness of will, the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's own better judgment, has remained a prominent discussion topic of philosophy.

Norman G.

Während die Aristotelische Seelenlehre dem Christentum jahrhundertelang als Bollwerk gegen Materialismus und Zufallsdenken gegolten hatte, nennt man Aristoteles seit geraumer Zeit entweder einen 'Materialisten' oder aber den 'ersten Funktionalisten'.

This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon.

For over thirty years, discursive psychology has offered a robust challenge to cognitivist approaches to psychology, demonstrating the relevance of discursive practices for understanding psychological topics and social interaction.

In this insightful new book David J.

Part 1, Advanced Contemplation, offers a direct route to the deepest mystical states--yielding permanent results of a metaphysical, transpersonal, and universal nature.

Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us.

Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of reality that is dynamic and mutable, rather than static and immutable.

Jose L.

This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false.

According to our commonsense view of the matter, beliefs, desires, intentions and the like are special kinds of internal states the possession of which by a given cr- ture potentially explains its behavior and otherwise renders the creature intelligible to us.

Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass.

'Informative, accessible, and fun to read- this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics.

Con motivo del octogésimo aniversario del profesor Danilo Castellano, un grupo de amigos y discípulos ha querido rendirle justo tributo.

This volume examines pantheism as an alternative to traditional theism and explores some conceptual and metaphysical challenges it faces.

In this book Emma Ruttkamp demonstrates the power of the full-blown employment of the model-theoretic paradigm in the philosophy of science.

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Well-Being and Death addresses philosophical questions about death and the good life: what makes a life go well?

Die Frage nach dem möglichen oder schon eingetretenen Ende metaphysischen Denkens ist eines der bedeutsamsten Leitmotive der Philosophie des 20.

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