Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza.

In a series of thought-provoking and original essays, eighteen leading philosophers engage in head-to-head debates of nine of the most cutting edge topics in contemporary metaphysics.

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No theory is more passionately and widely defined, or decried, than is liberalism in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

Simply stated, this book bridges the gap between statistics and philosophy.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

For a century now Marxists have been searching for a 'rational kernel' of Hegelian 'dialectics' inside the 'mystical shell' of the Hegelian system.

Die nicht zuletzt im Zuge der Deklaration eines „nachmetaphysischen Zeitalters“ für überzogen gehaltenen epistemologischen Ansprüche der klassischen Metaphysik scheinen sich auch und vor allem in der Auseinandersetzung mit skeptischen Argumenten bzw.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes in moral philosophy and philosophy of action.

Prompted and ever diversified by the specifically human interrogative logos, scientific inquiries seek a common system of links in order to mutually confirm and rectify their results.

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

This publication investigates how Karl Barth's doctrine of time and eternity can contribute to the continued understanding of the relationship of divine eternity to time or temporality.

This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the relevance of naturalism and theories of nature in Classical German Philosophy.

Both science and philosophy are interested in questions of ontology - questions about what exists and what these things are like.

The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy is an outstanding reference source for the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 1560 to 1780.

How was the standard model of the mind developed?

Is current archaeological theory stuck at an impasse?

This volume provides a geographically and historically diverse overview of philosophical traditions that establish a deep connection between truth and practice, or even see truth itself as a kind of practice.

Personal Agency consists of two parts.

A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers.

The Ethics of Time utilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry.

This volume presents new philosophical essays on a topic that's been neglected in most recent philosophy: games, sports, and play.

Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language.

The book is intended as a reader-friendly introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including mental-physical causal interaction, computational models of thought, the relation minds bear to brains, and assorted -isms: behaviorism, dualism, eliminativism, emergentism, functionalism, materialism, neutral monism, and panpsychism.

The revival of Leibniz studies in the past twenty-five years has cast important new light on both the context and content of Leibniz's philosophical thought.

Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility brings together nine essays on determinism, freedom and moral responsibility in antiquity by Susanne Bobzien.

In this collection of essays, philosopher Paul Russell addresses major figures and central topics of the history of early modern philosophy.

In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever.

A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment.

Simulation and Similarity is an account of modeling and idealization in modern scientific practice, focusing on concrete, mathematical, and computational models.

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The world was first introduced to the expertise and originality of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in Analecta Husserliana Vol.

Metaphysics has often held that laws of nature, if legitimate, must be time-independent.

Axiomatic Formal Ontology is a fairly comprehensive systematic treatise on general metaphysics.

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

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "e;abominable heresies"e; and "e;monstrous deeds,"e; the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's import business to dedicate his life to philosophy.

A sports reporter might say that in a competition all the participants realize their potentialities or possibilities.

The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a vast array of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most illustrious Irish philosopher.

This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy-the concept of existence itself-reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: "e;Existence is not a predicate.

This volume provides the reader with exclusive insights into Ernest Sosa's latest ideas as well as main aspects of his philosophical work of the last 50 years.

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy.

This study is a revised version ofa book, published in February 1990 under the same title, as my Ph.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of Fichte's philosophy.

I firmly believed there was a world outside of our own minds .

One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention.

Phenomenology is the philosophy of our times.