Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

What is given to us in conscious experience?

What is given to us in conscious experience?

At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position.

At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position.

Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental.

Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental.

Making a Difference presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts.

Explanatory reasoning is ubiquitous.

Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything?

Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything?

Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom.

Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom.

What is the origin of the concept of a law of nature?

Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent?

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Katherin A.

Concerns both about the nature of free will and about the credibility of theistic belief and commitment have long preoccupied philosophers.

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Jose L.

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

There is a need for integrated thinking about causality, probability and mechanisms in scientific methodology.

It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about.

Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests.

The Boundary Stones of Thought seeks to defend classical logic from a number of attacks of a broadly anti-realist character.

Eric Funkhouser uncovers a logical structure that is common to many, if not all, classificatory systems or taxonomies.

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.

The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us: what kind of thing are we?

Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and 70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which concerns the questions of what is possible and what is necessary.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

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.

This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations.

Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects.

Eleven original essays discuss a range of puzzling philosophical questions about fictional characters, and more generally about fictional objects.

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.

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

In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly.

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

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).

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Michael Pelczar presents an original account of space, time and conscious experience.

Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time.

Brian Hedden defends a radical view about the relationship between rationality, personal identity, and time.

The mind is directed upon the world.

The mind is directed upon the world.

Propositions has two main goals.

Propositions has two main goals.

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs.

There are two main ways in which things with minds, like us, differ from things without minds, like tables and chairs.

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.