Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Nearly everyone has brief moments of exalting communion with his or her own divine Soul and its finest possibilities: This book shows how to make the most of those moments; how to recognize, develop, test, and follow through on intuitions; how to contact the source of inspiration and make its vitalizing power a continuous presence.

This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene.

Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998.

The Distant Relation breaks down the artificial division between philosophy and literature by weaving contemporary philosophic arguments through close readings of Carpentier, Rulfo, Paz, and Garcia Marquez.

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy collects 39 original chapters from prominent philosophers on the nature, meaning, value, and predicaments of love, presented in a unique framework that highlights the rich variety of methods and traditions used to engage with these subjects.

Sexual orientation and how we might understand it is a topic that arouses significant controversy.

What is a stem cell?

Some students find philosophy engrossing; others are merely bewildered.

Philosophy of mind is one of the most dynamic fields in philosophy, and one that invites debate around several key questions.

Online social networks have already become a bridge connecting our physical daily life with the (web-based) information space.

Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years.

The very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles.

This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms, especially song.

The book seeks to explore ways in which education research, policy and practice ought to be re-thought and re-enacted under present bio-political predicaments.

The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991.

In this study, the author shows new entry points to the dialogue between Kant and Heidegger.

What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory?

The major divide in contemporary epistemology is between those who embrace and those who reject a priori knowledge.

Originally published in 1937.

Die »Aphorismen über die Naturphilosophie« (1806/07) wie auch die zugehörigen »Aphorismen zur Einleitung in die Naturphilosophie « (1805) sind in der Forschung bisher weitgehend unbeachtet geblieben, obwohl sie einen bedeutenden Übergangstext von der Natur zur Freiheitsphilosophie Schellings darstellen.

Contemporary Materialism brings together the best recent work on materialism from many of our leading contemporary philosophers.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries.

This book provides a robustly metaphysical, Hegelian account of the relation between appearance, thought and reality.

This volume explores the connections between Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of natural law and contemporary social thought.

This volume explores Nietzsche's decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus.

Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michael Foucault's ideas on freedom and Jacques Ranci re's ideas on equality.

This Element covers a great number of philosophical issues regarding special relativity in a pedagogical and highly non-partisan way.

Identity and Discrimination This updated edition of Identity and Discrimination, first published in 1990 and the first book by well-known philosopher Timothy Williamson, is now reissued with the inclusion of significant new material.

We are still looking for a satisfactory definition of what makes an individual being a human individual.

The world of scholarship is changing rapidly.

Supposition is frequently invoked in many fields within philosophy, including aesthetics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and epistemology.

Addressing Merleau-Ponty's work Phenomenology of Perception, in dialogue with The Visible and the Invisible, his lectures at the Collège de France, and his reading of Proust, this book argues that at play in his thought is a philosophy of “ontological lateness”.

This important commentary by Alexander of Aphrodisias on Aristotle's work on biochemistry was previously lost.

Responsibility and Punishment presents a clear-headed defense of retributivism against several long-standing criticisms.

This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world.

Prefatory Explanation It must be remarked at once that I am 'editor' of this volume only in that I had the honor of presiding at the symposium on Spinoza and the Sciences at which a number of these papers were presented (exceptions are those by Hans Jonas, Richard Popkin, Joe VanZandt and our four European contributors), in that I have given some editorial advice on details of some of the papers, including translations, and finally, in that my name appears on the cover.

Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of the Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font and analytic summaries of each section.

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

This volume defends a novel approach to the philosophy of physics: it is the first book devoted to a comparative study of probability, causality, and propensity, and their various interrelations, within the context of contemporary physics -- particularly quantum and statistical physics.

Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might even be able to outlive the death of the body?

Dieser Band betrachtet das menschliche Leben aus drei Perspektiven, die alle mit seiner zeitlichen Begrenztheit verknüpft sind: Erstens wird untersucht, worin die zeitliche Einheit eines menschlichen Lebens besteht, wo genau es beginnt und wo es endet.