Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

What can we learn about the world from engaging with fictional time-series?

Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an affective mechanism, one that, when rational, behaves as a spiritual automaton.

It was well known to the Greeks that the phenomenon of vagueness in natural language gives rise to hard problems and paradoxes, yet more than two millennia passed before Philosophy began to pay any degree of concerted attention to the challenges of vagueness to match the effort expended, for example, on the Liar paradox and its kin.

Drawing together his work from four decades, Phillip Bricker provides a comprehensive account of modal reality - the realm of possible worlds - from a Humean perspective, with excursions into neighboring topics in metaphysics.

David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths.

David Chalmers develops a picture of reality on which all truths can be derived from a limited class of basic truths.

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

Brian Leftow offers a theory of the possible and the necessary in which God plays the chief role, and a new sort of argument for God's existence.

The analysis of the connections between truth, meaning, thought, and action poses a major philosophical challenge--one that Donald Davidson addressed by establishing a unified theory of language and mind.

Paul Katsafanas explores how we might justify normative claims as diverse as 'murder is wrong' and 'agents have reason to take the means to their ends.

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time.

Causation is at once familiar and mysterious.

An international team of contributors presents new work on the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind.

Tim Button explores the relationship between words and world; between semantics and scepticism.

This book is about normativity and reasons.

Abstract objects have been a central topic in philosophy since antiquity.

In The Republic, Plato suggests that the enlightened person will find himself disoriented on his return to the realm of the shadows.

Composition is the relation between a whole and its parts--the parts are said to compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts.

Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content.

Necessary Beings is concerned with two central areas of metaphysics: modality--the theory of necessity, possibility, and other related notions; and ontology--the general study of what kinds of entities there are.

Causality and Mind presents seventeen of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy, which focus on two main themes.

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How are truths about physical and mental states related?

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time.

Hans Christian orsted (1777-1851) is of great importance as a scientist and philosopher far beyond the borders of Denmark and his own time.

Many different features of the world figure consciously in our perceptual experiences, in the sense that they make a subjective difference to those experiences.

Denis McManus presents a new interpretation of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and of the world we inhabit.

In this collection of essays, most of which are of recent vintage, and seven of which appear here for the first time, Christopher S.

This volume of newly written chapters on the history and interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus represents a significant step beyond the polemical debate between broad interpretive approaches that has recently characterized the field.

Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers.

Joseph LaPorte offers a new account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements.

Scientific Metaphysics collects original essays by some of the world's leading philosophers of science on the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalized--that is, conducted as a part of natural science.

Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology.

Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

Head hits cause brain damage - but not always.

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field.

Analytic philosophy is once again in a methodological frame of mind.

'What is real?

'What is real?

Mind, Brain, and Free Will presents a powerful new case for substance dualism (the theory that humans consist of two parts body and soul) and for libertarian free will (that humans have some freedom to choose between alternatives, independently of the causes which influence them).

Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world.

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Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical questions concerning the one and the many.

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed.

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

Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D.

What does reality encompass?

Human beings are not model epistemic citizens.