Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This is the first systematic student introduction to metametaphysics, examining the nature, foundations and methodology of metaphysical inquiry.

Die Welt ist zunehmend undenkbar geworden: Umweltkatastrophen, Pandemien, und am Horizont grinst die Fratze des Aussterbens der Menschheit.

Truth is in trouble.

The book focuses on the debate about myth as a counter-concept to contemporary scientific thinking.

This book examines taxonomic practices in cognitive science and uncovers crosscutting relationships among categories in psychology and neuroscience.

The first is that a miracle, understood as an event produced by a transcendent agent overriding the usual course of nature, involves a violation of the laws of nature.

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality.

Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience.

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

This book presents a novel interpretation of major problems of Indian ethics from an applied ethical perspective.

This book identifies and expands upon the link between ontology and education, exposing a lack of ontological inquiry as the vital missing element in the study and practice of modern education today.

Adolf Reinach was one of the leading figures of the Munich and Gottingen circles of phenomenology, and Husserl's first real co-worker.

What if the reality you see is nothing more than shadows on a wall?

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows how their styles are not merely ornamental but fundamental to building their own temporalities.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "De Veritate - Über die Wahrheit" verfügbar.

This book explores the metaphysical assumptions that underlie different interpretations of the relationship between religion and the secular, faith and reason, and transcendence and immanence.

In Jaspers' existentieller Metaphysik sind die Begriffe "Existenz" und "Transzendenz" eng verbunden.

In Do Numbers Exist?

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

Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science.

Jordi Fernandez here offers a philosophical investigation of memory, one which engages with memory's philosophically puzzling characteristics in order to clarify what memory is.

Renowned for his metaphysics, Spinoza made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy.

This volume presents Price''s distinctive version of the traditional representationalism/naturalism combination, with commentary by four other major figures.

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Responding to growing interest in the Kantian tradition and in issues concerning space and time, this volume offers an insightful and original contribution to the literature by bringing together analytical and phenomenological approaches in a productive exchange on topical issues such as action, perception, the body, and cognition and its limits.

These essays will interest readers working on both Ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary analytical concerns.

Hardly any attempt to come to grips with the classical problem of free will and determinism directly addresses the metaphysical vision driving the concerns of those who believe that a significant sort of free will cannot exist in a deterministic world.

This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold 'Em poker.

This edited collection of eight original essays pursues the aim of bringing the spotlight back on Anton Marty.

What is this thing called Philosophy?

This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

Distinguished metaphysicians examine issues central to the high-profile debate between philosophers over how to classify the natural world, and discuss issues in applied ontology such as the classification of diseases.

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy.

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A step by step illumination of the intricacy, 'logic', and importance of one of Nietzsche's richest and most complex works.

This book presents an elaborated argument for why functionalism, as well as other dematerialized and disembodied theories of mind, can't be right.

For Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the "e;enormous flywheel"e; of society.

A team of leading experts investigate a range of philosophical issues to do with the self and self-knowledge.

In den letzten Jahren ist der Begriff der ›Person‹ zu einem Schlüsselbegriff des philosophischen wie des gesellschaftlichen Diskurses geworden.

The History of Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand is a comprehensive account of the historical development of philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, from the establishment of the first Philosophy Chair in Australasia in 1886 at the University of Melbourne to the current burgeoning of Australasian philosophy.

In the first science fiction and philosophy anthology to focus on identity, a set of exemplary stories raise deep questions about who and what we are.

Perhaps no one has done more in the last 30 years to advance thinking in the metaphysics of modality than has Alvin Plantinga.