Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays.

In Literary Darwinism, Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays.

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

The Open Universe is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper's Postscript to the Logic of scientific Discovery.

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts.

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts.

The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today.

The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today.

This book explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence.

This book explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence.

This book highlights Kant's fundamental contrast between the mechanistic and dynamical conceptions of matter, which is central to his views about the foundations of physics, and is best understood in terms of the contrast between objects of sensibility and things in themselves.

This book highlights Kant's fundamental contrast between the mechanistic and dynamical conceptions of matter, which is central to his views about the foundations of physics, and is best understood in terms of the contrast between objects of sensibility and things in themselves.

This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds.

This book discusses a range of important issues in current philosophical work on the nature of possible worlds.

McGrath argues for an original truth theory that combines elements of two well-known philosophical theories--deflationism and correspondence.

McGrath argues for an original truth theory that combines elements of two well-known philosophical theories--deflationism and correspondence.

This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable?

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

This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable?

First Published in 2001.

First Published in 2001.

This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought experiment.

This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought experiment.

Volume 4 in the 5-volume series titled Analytical Metaphysics.

Volume 4 in the 5-volume series titled Analytical Metaphysics.

This Contemporary Introduction is for at students of metaphysics who have already done an introductory philosophy course.

This Contemporary Introduction is for at students of metaphysics who have already done an introductory philosophy course.

Existentialist Ontology and Human ConsciousnessThe majority of the distinguished scholarly articles in this volume focus on Sartre's early philosophical work, which dealt first with imagination and the emotions, then with the critique of Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego, and finally with systematic ontology presented in his best-known book, Being and Nothingness.

Existentialist Ontology and Human ConsciousnessThe majority of the distinguished scholarly articles in this volume focus on Sartre's early philosophical work, which dealt first with imagination and the emotions, then with the critique of Husserl's notion of a transcendental ego, and finally with systematic ontology presented in his best-known book, Being and Nothingness.

This volume shows how The Doctrine of Essence intersects with perennial philosophical questions including above all, the relationship between freedom and determinism.

This volume shows how The Doctrine of Essence intersects with perennial philosophical questions including above all, the relationship between freedom and determinism.

Is psychoanalysis a narrative of self-knowledge, or a movement of lived time and the body?

Is psychoanalysis a narrative of self-knowledge, or a movement of lived time and the body?

In this book Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically in every detail.

In this book Lawrence Hatab provides an accessible and provocative exploration of one of the best-known and still most puzzling aspects of Nietzsche's thought: eternal recurrence, the claim that life endlessly repeats itself identically in every detail.

In this concise text, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the "e;problems of philosophy"e;.

In this concise text, Roy Bhaskar sets out to diagnose, explain and resolve the "e;problems of philosophy"e;.

Are fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes real?

Are fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes real?

Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice.

Dialectic and Difference is the first systematic exploration of Roy Bhaskar's dialectical philosophy and its implications for ethics and justice.

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected.

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected.

This new edition includes three new chapters, updating the book to take into account developments in the field over the past fifteen years.

This new edition includes three new chapters, updating the book to take into account developments in the field over the past fifteen years.

This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in reality issues (ontology) within accounting, economics, and the information sciences, with a view to informing scholars from these different disciplines about each other's endeavours in ontological research.

This book discusses and summarizes the revived interest in reality issues (ontology) within accounting, economics, and the information sciences, with a view to informing scholars from these different disciplines about each other's endeavours in ontological research.

In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume's treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity.

In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume's treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity.

Expanding on the theory of ethics first posited by Brentano in The Origin of our Knowledge of Right and Wrong this re-issued work, first published posthumously in 1952, is based on series of lectures on practical philosophy, given at the university of Vienna from 1876 to 1894.