Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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

A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.

Introduces readers to metaphysical background and examines reasons for and against thinking of God as timeless.

Focuses on potential threats to human free will from two divine attributes: God''s foreknowledge and God''s providential control of creation.

Argues that ''flourishing'' means balancing one''s responsiveness to three normative claims: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability.

This book develops an account of morality, freedom, reason, and the self that breaks with leading currents of modern thought.

Challenges the idea that knowledge of a conclusion requires knowledge of essential premises, a widely accepted concept in epistemology.

This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

A rapidly expanding Islamic revival movement shows that Islamic rationalism and not jihadism is to define twenty-first century Islam.

A rapidly expanding Islamic revival movement shows that Islamic rationalism and not jihadism is to define twenty-first century Islam.

Examines gene-based neo-Darwinism in light of current knowledge of genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic inheritance systems.

Offers the first comprehensive textbook covering the interrelations between topics in the philosophy of logic in an accessible, non-technical, and up-to-date way.

Interpreting Kuhn provides a comprehensive, up-to-date study of Thomas Kuhn''s philosophy and legacy.

Develops and defends a new metaphysical and logical theory of arbitrary objects that will reinvigorate the philosophy of mathematics.

Discusses a new kind of solution to the problem of belief in God and abstract objects.

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time.

An updated introduction to the fundamental problems in contemporary epistemology, perfect for a first course in the field.

Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason.

Detailed exploration of the Transcendental Dialectic, in which Kant uncovers the sources of metaphysics in human reason.

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato''s philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time.

Applies cutting-edge research and in-depth critical analysis to Aquinas'' most influential work, engaging with ethics, metaphysics, theology, and law.

A partially historical account of the nature of reductionism and the philosophical issues that surround it.

Ontological arguments promise the philosophical jackpot: armchair proof of God!

Challenges the idea that knowledge of a conclusion requires knowledge of essential premises, a widely accepted concept in epistemology.

Offers the first comprehensive textbook covering the interrelations between topics in the philosophy of logic in an accessible, non-technical, and up-to-date way.

This volume brings together new essays on virtue epistemology, one of the leading approaches in the theory of knowledge.

Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason.

What is a stem cell?

This monumental work presents Schopenhauer''s metaphysics of the will, and wide-ranging philosophical reflections on psychology, desire, sex, death, and salvation.

Presents the first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic thought.

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

Argues that ''flourishing'' means balancing one''s responsiveness to three normative claims: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability.

Covers the Darwinian revolution, whether it really was a revolution, its nature, and the implications for epistemology and ethics.

Argues that knowledge of something''s history makes a difference to how we engage with it aesthetically.

Considers the ways in which immunology can address some of the most important philosophical issues.

Comparative psychology''s attempt to avoid bias has introduced new ones.

Argues that knowledge of something''s history makes a difference to how we engage with it aesthetically.

Considers the ways in which immunology can address some of the most important philosophical issues.

An analysis of ''comparative thinking'': integrating living systems into models of the evolutionary processes which shaped them.

Presents the first collection of essays dedicated to Roman linguistic naturalism, a major but under-studied area of Roman linguistic thought.

Establishes new connections between dispositionalism and a variety of debates in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science.

A study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.

Establishes new connections between dispositionalism and a variety of debates in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science.

Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Argues that satisfactory theories of objectivity must include the robust account of experience found in classical pragmatism.