Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Plato's Timaeus is unique in Greek Antiquity for presenting the creation of the world as the work of a divine demiurge.

Pese al fracaso editorial que había supuesto la primera edición de El mundo como voluntad y representación, Schopenhauer consiguió que en 1844 saliera a la luz una segunda edición, aumentada por un segundo volumen de mayor extensión que el primero y en el que incluyó los complementos a los cuatro libros que componían la obra original.

An Invitation to Formal Reasoning introduces the discipline of formal logic by means of a powerful new system formulated by Fred Sommers.

This book addresses central issues in the philosophy and metaphysics of science, namely the nature of scientific theories, their partial truth, and the necessity of scientific laws within a moderate realist and empiricist perspective.

What if the Big Bang was an exodus of non-existing reality into existence?

Sui Han geht von der Mehrdeutigkeit des Begriffs des Nichtseienden – die der von Aristoteles in einer berühmten Formulierung festgestellten Mehrdeutigkeit des Seienden teilweise, aber nicht völlig analog ist – und der „Aussageverflechtung von Sein und Nichtsein“ aus.

This book argues that our current best theories of fundamental physics are best interpreted as positing spacetime as non-fundamental.

It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies of their age.

During the seventeenth century Francisco Suarez was considered one of the greatest philosophers of the age.

In this book, abstract intellectual argument meets ordinary human experience on matters such as the existence of God and the relation between religion and morality.

Paul Tillich's Philosophical Theology takes up the challenge as to whether his thought remains relevant fifty years after his death.

This book newly articulates the international and interdisciplinary reach of Whitehead's organic process cosmology for a variety of topics across science and philosophy, and in dialogue with a variety historical and contemporary voices.

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field.

Stuff, the hoard of minor objects which have shed their commodity glamor but which we refuse to recycle, flashes up in fiction, films and photographs as alluring, unruly reminder of how people and matter are intertwined.

This work is a historical study of the philosophical writings emerging from Imperial Russia's theological "e;academies"e; - Orthodoxy's higher educational institutions that ran parallel to the secular universities - from their inception to the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution.

This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time.

New Texts in the History of PhilosophyPublished in association with the British Society for the History of PhilosophyThe aim of this series is to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of the history of philosophy, including the rediscovery of neglected elements and the exploration of new approaches to the subject.

In Eliminativism, Objects, and Persons, Jiri Benovsky defends the view that he doesn't exist.

Descartes is widely acknowledged as a central figure in the origins of modernity.

Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds.

Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel's entire logic of being.

While much has been written on Descartes' theory of mind and ideas, no systematic study of his theory of sensory representation and misrepresentation is currently available in the literature.

Dance is often considered an ephemeral art, one that disappears nearly as soon as it materializes, leaving no physical object behind.

This book develops an original theory of agentive modality: the kind of modality that is distinctive to agents.

In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism.

In My Ever After is not a mass media style "e;general readership"e; book on immortality; rather, it is an argument against a current school -- neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

Michael R.

Was ist das Sein des Sozialen?

In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening.

What is time?

What is truth?

Calling for a revival of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant, Kenneth Rose overcomes the forgetfulness of being through contemplative ontology.

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle.

Across his relatively short and eccentric authorial career, Soren Kierkegaard develops a unique, and provocative, account of what it is to become, to be, and to lose a self, backed up by a rich phenomenology of self-experience.

This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern philosophy.

What distinguishes laws of nature from ordinary facts?

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character.

This scrupulously researched and rigorously argued book is the first to interpret and evaluate the central topic of Martin Heidegger's philosophy--his celebrated "e;Question of Being"e;--in the context of the full range of Heidegger's thought.

This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism.

Immanuel Kant's enduring influence on philosophy is indisputable.

In Everything in Its Right Place, Joseph Almog develops the unitarian and universalist metaphysics of Spinoza.

This book argues that a plausible account of emergence requires replacing the traditional assumption that what primarily exists are particular entities with generic processes.

This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant's critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of its fundamental arguments and provide a key to understanding its unity.