Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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

Perhaps we are never done with thought, nor should be.

Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests.

This book examines the so-called hiddenness argument of the Canadian philosopher John L.

Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology.

If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world?

First published in 1937, The Philosophy of Relativity contains an exposition of Einstein, a step-by step deduction of the main equations of both the special and general theories of relativity.

This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer, whose work on a wide range of topics over the past 40 years has been transformative and inspirational.

Este texto publicado en 1953 y completamente reelaborado, presenta el curso que bajo el mismo título fue dictado en el semestre de verano de 1935 en la Universidad de Friburgo de Brisgovia.

Ruthenberg highlights the unique aspects of chemistry, specifically its metachemical fundamentals, which have been largely overlooked in current philosophies of science.

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

Analyzing the importance of joy, laughter, and cheerfulness in Nietzsche's thought, this volume addresses an under-examined topic in the secondary literature.

First published in 1952, Reflections on Life and Religion is a collection of selected entries made by Sir James Baillie from 1893 to his death.

Raymond Tallis's The Explicit Animal (1991) was a passionate attack on attempts to explain human consciousness in purely biological terms.

Since the middle of the twentieth century, virtue ethics has enriched the range of philosophical approaches to normative ethics, often drawing on the work of the ancient Greeks, who offered accounts of the virtues that have become part of contemporary philosophical ethics.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by BertrandRussell as 'one of the supreme intellects of all time'.

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences.

Knowledge, from Plato onwards, has been considered in relation to justified belief.

In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion.

This Element discuss formulations of identity criteria and takes a look at one notorious criterion of object identity, Leibniz''s Law.

Building from foundations of modern science and cosmic evolution, as well as psychological and philosophical perspectives of value and meaning, this book explores some of humanity's biggest questions:          Is the Universe about something ?

The Evident Connexion presents a new reading of Hume's 'bundle theory' of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it.

How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the beginnings of a new ontological pluralism?

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century.

What if the world you see is only a shadow of the truth?

This book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology.

This book offers a unique perspective on one of the deepest questions about the world we live in: is reality multi-leveled, or can everything be reduced to some fundamental 'flat' level?

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The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory.

In the last decades ontology has been successfully developed in many directions and has fostered various approaches for depicting the contemporary ontological landscapes.

Employing her original concept of the ontopoiesis of life, the author uncovers the intrinsic law of the primogenital logos - that which operates in the working of the indivisible dyad of impetus and equipoise.

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades.

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.

Judith Werner untersucht, wie sich Antisemitismus in einem Kernbereich von Heideggers Denken manifestiert: seinem Dichtungs- und Literaturverständnis.

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This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant''s critical philosophy as a whole.

This volume contains six new and fifteen previously published essays -- plus a new introduction -- by Storrs McCall.

Uncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn; and the new pathways for critical thinking created by the combination of these monumental discourses.

Why broach and challenge the question of neutrality?

Das pansophische Denken des Comenius ist von der Überzeugung geprägt, daß die Wirklichkeit sich von der grundlegenden Ebene reinen geistigen Seins über zahlreiche Vermittlungsstufen bis zur erfahrbaren Realität erstreckt.

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Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry.

Wáng Yángmíng (1472–1529) ist einer der bedeutendsten konfuzianischen Denker des kaiserzeitlichen China.