Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarreand why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing?

How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarreand why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing?

Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Discusses and invites students to reflect on topics such as causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, and material objects.

Discusses and invites students to reflect on topics such as causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, and material objects.

This book discusses the philosophical work of Decio Krause.

One of the seventeenth century's most important thinkers, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz exercised enormous influence on the philosophy of Herder, Feuerbach, and Hegel as well as on the writings of Schiller and Goethe.

What is morally permissible, and what is morally obligatory?

The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics.

Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine s Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language.

Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking Critique of Pure Reason inaugurated a new way of understanding the world that continues to impact philosophy to the present day.

With philosophy so steeped in patriarchal tradition how is it possible for feminists to work within it?

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study, this new anthology collects influential essays on free will, including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work.

This book shows how the continental philosophical tradition developed in the twentieth century in a philosophically distinct manner.

In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action.

Persons and Their Minds compares the conflicting claims of mindism and personism and argues for placing persons at the center of philosophy of mind.

Thinking about Logic is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of classic articles in the philosophy of logic.

This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus.

In this short text, a distinguished philosopher turns his attention to one of the oldest and most fundamental philosophical problems of all: How it is that we are able to sort and classify different things as being of the same natural class?

Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking Critique of Pure Reason inaugurated a new way of understanding the world that continues to impact philosophy to the present day.

With philosophy so steeped in patriarchal tradition how is it possible for feminists to work within it?

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study, this new anthology collects influential essays on free will, including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work.

This book shows how the continental philosophical tradition developed in the twentieth century in a philosophically distinct manner.

In this comprehensive new study of human free agency, Laura Waddell Ekstrom critically surveys contemporary philosophical literature and provides a novel account of the conditions for free action.

Persons and Their Minds compares the conflicting claims of mindism and personism and argues for placing persons at the center of philosophy of mind.

This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus.

Thinking about Logic is an accessible and thought-provoking collection of classic articles in the philosophy of logic.

In this short text, a distinguished philosopher turns his attention to one of the oldest and most fundamental philosophical problems of all: How it is that we are able to sort and classify different things as being of the same natural class?

Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century.

Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century.

In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history have become increasingly complex.

This book outlines three shibboleths of psychoanalysis: psychic bisexuality, the Oedipus complex, and social ontology.

In contemporary psychoanalysis, the concepts of time and history have become increasingly complex.

This book outlines three shibboleths of psychoanalysis: psychic bisexuality, the Oedipus complex, and social ontology.

Published in 1999.

Published in 1999.

This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to recent developments in analytic philosophy.

This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to recent developments in analytic philosophy.

Published in 1999, this work sets out to give an account of explanation which is adequate to the problems that arise when looking at physical science.

Published in 1999, this work sets out to give an account of explanation which is adequate to the problems that arise when looking at physical science.

First published in 1998, this volume responded to and evaluated criticisms of McTaggart's atemporal philosophy of time.

First published in 1998, this volume responded to and evaluated criticisms of McTaggart's atemporal philosophy of time.

First published in 1903, Taylor endeavours to provide a detailed study of metaphysic as a discipline.

First published in 1903, Taylor endeavours to provide a detailed study of metaphysic as a discipline.

First published in 1998, Taking on Wittgensteinianism themes, but also using, or relying on several mathematical results, Slater in this book explores the idea of realism and further argues how in a philosophical viewpoint is incorrect.

First published in 1998, Taking on Wittgensteinianism themes, but also using, or relying on several mathematical results, Slater in this book explores the idea of realism and further argues how in a philosophical viewpoint is incorrect.

This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, in contrast to the continuous historical interest in that life as an object for biographical reconstruction and description.

This book, first published in 1978, is a radical approach to the philosophical distinction between Being and beings, in which the life of Socrates is used as the metaphor for the theoretical life, in contrast to the continuous historical interest in that life as an object for biographical reconstruction and description.

Thisness Presentism outlines and defends a novel version of presentism, the view that only present entities exist and what is present really changes, a view of time that captures a real and objective difference between what is past, present, and future, and which offers a model of reality that is dynamic and mutable, rather than static and immutable.