Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Experience suggests time has an objective present moment, and is dynamic; science suggests otherwise.

This Element examines literature on essence in connection with the traditional question whether essence lies within or without our world.

This Element focuses on contemporary work on substance, and in particular on contemporary substance ontologies.

Experience suggests time has an objective present moment, and is dynamic; science suggests otherwise.

This Element examines literature on essence in connection with the traditional question whether essence lies within or without our world.

An accessible, historically sensitive, metaphysically engaged discussion of relations of use to specialists and non-specialists alike.

A study of the ways in which representations in physics can express the same content, despite apparent mathematical differences.

This book reinterprets key parts of the Critique of Pure Reason in view of Kant''s sustained engagement with Wolffian metaphysics.

Examines the rich and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger.

Examines the rich and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger.

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century philosophy.

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century philosophy.

An accessible and comprehensive examination of ontological arguments, their history and their importance.

An accessible and comprehensive examination of ontological arguments, their history and their importance.

Hegel gilt nicht umsonst als einer der wirkungsmächtigsten Denker der Philosophiegeschichte.

This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

Explores the potential relevance of God or a soul for life''s meaning as discussed in recent Anglo-American philosophical literature.

Discusses a new kind of solution to the problem of belief in God and abstract objects.

This volume examines pantheism as an alternative to traditional theism and explores some conceptual and metaphysical challenges it faces.

Examines gene-based neo-Darwinism in light of current knowledge of genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic inheritance systems.

A study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.

This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the ''model organism'' in contemporary biology.

This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the ''model organism'' in contemporary biology.

Focuses on potential threats to human free will from two divine attributes: God''s foreknowledge and God''s providential control of creation.

Ontological arguments promise the philosophical jackpot: armchair proof of God!

What is a stem cell?

Explores the potential relevance of God or a soul for life''s meaning as discussed in recent Anglo-American philosophical literature.

Considers physical pain, social bereavement, the origin of evil, theodicy, justice, divine violence, and reward.

This volume examines pantheism as an alternative to traditional theism and explores some conceptual and metaphysical challenges it faces.

Introduces readers to metaphysical background and examines reasons for and against thinking of God as timeless.

Focuses on potential threats to human free will from two divine attributes: God''s foreknowledge and God''s providential control of creation.

Challenges the idea that knowledge of a conclusion requires knowledge of essential premises, a widely accepted concept in epistemology.

This accessible book presents a new theory of biological functions and connects it to contemporary problems in philosophy and science.

Examines gene-based neo-Darwinism in light of current knowledge of genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic inheritance systems.

Discusses a new kind of solution to the problem of belief in God and abstract objects.

Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason.

A partially historical account of the nature of reductionism and the philosophical issues that surround it.

Ontological arguments promise the philosophical jackpot: armchair proof of God!

Challenges the idea that knowledge of a conclusion requires knowledge of essential premises, a widely accepted concept in epistemology.

Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason.

What is a stem cell?

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

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

Argues that knowledge of something''s history makes a difference to how we engage with it aesthetically.

Considers the ways in which immunology can address some of the most important philosophical issues.

Comparative psychology''s attempt to avoid bias has introduced new ones.