Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This book marks a major new reassessment of Camus's writing investigating the nature and philosophical origins of Camus's thinking on 'authenticity' and 'the absurd' as these notions are expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus and The Outsider.

This book studies literary epiphany as a modality of character in the British and American novel.

Dustin McWherter defends the possibility of critical ontology by pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience.

Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit.

Groff's argument runs counter to the familiar anti-metaphysical habit.

This book offers an up-to-date handling of C.

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science.

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science.

This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers - properties such as fragility and electric charge.

This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers - properties such as fragility and electric charge.

The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over.

The concept of potential plays a prominent role in the thinking of parents, educators and planners the world over.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought.

Is current archaeological theory stuck at an impasse?

Is current archaeological theory stuck at an impasse?

Is the world of appearances the real world?

Is the world of appearances the real world?

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'.

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa), but addressing issues found in Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein and contemporary analytic philosophers, this book argues for a philosophical position it calls 'non-realism'.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

Der international renommierte Philosoph Byung-Chul Han widmet sich der Schönheit der Erde und der Natur.

'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.

'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.

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd.

This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd.

Despite his important stature in the history of philosophy, Averroes is a thinker whose work has been left largely unexplored in this century.

Despite his important stature in the history of philosophy, Averroes is a thinker whose work has been left largely unexplored in this century.

Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in social theory.

Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in social theory.

This second volume opens with Aristotle's immense influence on philosophy from the beginnings of Christian philosophy in the fifth century AD.

Does God exist?

Does God exist?

Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism.

Conservative Reductionism sets out a new theory of the relationship between physics and the special sciences within the framework of functionalism.