Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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.

An analysis of ''comparative thinking'': integrating living systems into models of the evolutionary processes which shaped them.

Establishes new connections between dispositionalism and a variety of debates in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science.

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

Establishes new connections between dispositionalism and a variety of debates in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science.

In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger''s ''Being and Time'', seventeen leading scholars explore the central themes of Heidegger''s revolutionary work.

In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger''s ''Being and Time'', seventeen leading scholars explore the central themes of Heidegger''s revolutionary work.

Explicitness is one of the fundamental mysteries in which our lives are wrapped.

This book explores and develops a new philosophical argument for the existence of God from metaphysics.

Der Mensch und die Technik ist keine bloße Reflexion über die Stellung technischer Verfahren in der modernen Welt oder deren kulturbedingte Kritik.

La felicidad es algo que todos buscamos, ya sea en la comida, el sexo, el entretenimiento, las relaciones, los niños, la carrera, los pasatiempos o el sueño.

Uma receita pode ser um guia para confecionar um determinado prato, às vezes também achamos que vai chegar um determinado momento para sermos felizes e vamos deixando passar as oportunidades que a vida nos apresenta porque acreditamos que para sermos felizes deve acontecer algo extremamente extraordinário neste mundo ou fora dele.

Todas as religiões e filosofias que perderam tempo em teorias abstratas e fantasiosas não podem avançar baseando-as no acaso, ou, ao contrário, em um criador autoritário, que definitivamente tenha o mesmo raciocínio no qual afasta o observador de toda responsabilidade consciente na análise própria, em sua atitude ante si mesmo, o mundo circundante e todo o universo.

Articulates the connections between the distinctive conceptions of recognition and the self that emerge over the course of Hegel''s Phenomenology.

Articulates the connections between the distinctive conceptions of recognition and the self that emerge over the course of Hegel''s Phenomenology.

Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn''s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Examines the influences on and impact of Thomas Kuhn''s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Explores what it takes for ways of thinking and talking about the ways things exist over time, to be true.

Analyzing paradoxes proves interesting results regarding philosophical progress, agreement, knockdown arguments, belief, the status of metaphysics, and common sense.

Analyzing paradoxes proves interesting results regarding philosophical progress, agreement, knockdown arguments, belief, the status of metaphysics, and common sense.

Provides a clear analysis of Nietzsche''s controversial endorsement of conflict, struggle and war.

Provides a clear analysis of Nietzsche''s controversial endorsement of conflict, struggle and war.

This Element provides an overview of the contributions of Susan Stebbing, the UK''s first female professor of Philosophy.

This Element provides an overview of the contributions of Susan Stebbing, the UK''s first female professor of Philosophy.

This Element is a survey of the state of the art in the metaphysics of material objects.

This Element is a survey of the state of the art in the metaphysics of material objects.

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

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

Are there any mind-independent objects?

Are there any mind-independent objects?

Dieses eBook: "Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism.

This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism.

In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism is an accessible introduction to Karen Barad's agential realist philosophy.

In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism is an accessible introduction to Karen Barad's agential realist philosophy.

This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering a sympathetic reconstruction of a philosophy of science commensurate with Marx's thought.

This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering a sympathetic reconstruction of a philosophy of science commensurate with Marx's thought.

This book offers new perspectives on the theoretical elements of the Opus postumum (OP), Kant's project of a final work which remained unknown until eighty years after his death.

This book offers new perspectives on the theoretical elements of the Opus postumum (OP), Kant's project of a final work which remained unknown until eighty years after his death.

This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial perspective.

This book is an ethnographic exploration of what it means to be human from a more-than-human perspective, the microbial perspective.

Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores 'Absence' and 'Future' in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.

Drawing largely from the psychoanalytic ground of Jung, Bion and Winnicott, from Plato and Whitehead and from numerous clinical studies, this book explores 'Absence' and 'Future' in the context of their many emotional and conceptual meanings.

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental.

In Reading Contingency: The Accident in Contemporary Fiction, David Wylot constructs an innovative study of the relationship between plotted accidents in twenty-first century British and American fiction, the phenomenology of reading, and a contemporary experience of time that is increasingly understood to be contingent and accidental.