Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

We all have beliefs to the effect that if a certain thing were to happen a certain other thing would happen.

Eli Hirsch has contributed steadily to metaphysics since his ground-breaking (and much cited) work on identity through time (culminating in the 1982 OUP book The Concept of Identity).

In this book Michael McKenna advances a new theory of moral responsibility, one that builds upon the work of P.

Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them.

This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style.

This bold and original work of philosophy presents an exciting new picture of concrete reality.

This is the third volume of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind.

The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West.

George Berkeley notoriously claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense.

Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid.

While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's articles have been less widely accessible.

This is a collection of published and unpublished essays by distinguished philosopher Michael E.

This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit.

While well-known for his book-length work, philosopher Peter Unger's articles have been less widely accessible.

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "e;agent"e; causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics.

If we must take mathematical statements to be true, must we also believe in the existence of abstracta eternal invisible mathematical objects accessible only by the power of pure thought?

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The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure.

We say "e;the grass is green"e; or "e;lemons are yellow"e; to state what everyone knows.

In the last two decades the idea of African Philosophy has undergone significant change and scrutiny.

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology.

This intellectual biography of Immanuel Kant's early years-- from 1746 when he wrote his first book, to 1766 when he lost his faith in metaphysics --makes an outstanding contribution to Kant scholarship.

Throughout the history of philosophical theology, scholars have reflected on the relationship between God and time.

We typically assume that the standard for what is beautiful lies in the eye of the beholder.

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

What is death?

This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world.

Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "e;near-death"e; experiences have appeared in the past decade.

We typically think we have free will.

It seems quite natural to explain the activities of human and non-human animals by referring to their special faculties.

According to Russellian monism, an alternative to the familiar theories in the philosophy of mind that combines attractive components of physicalism and dualism, matter has intrinsic properties that both constitute consciousness and serve as categorical bases for the dispositional properties described in physics.

This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which Hegel's project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by taking metaphysics as fundamental to philosophy, rather than any epistemological problem about knowledge or intentionality.

In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision.

In 1687 Isaac Newton ushered in a new scientific era in which laws of nature could be used to predict the movements of matter with almost perfect precision.

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure.

This volume brings together fourteen mostly previously published articles by the prominent Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark.

We are women, we are men.

The dead are gone.

This is a new volume of original essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.

The prolific Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) published books on natural philosophy as well as stories, plays, poems, orations, allegories, and letters.

In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L.

This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography.

The imagination, our capacity to entertain thoughts and ideas "e;in the mind's eye,"e; is indispensable in science as elsewhere in human life.

In May 2010, philosophers, family and friends gathered at the University of Notre Dame to celebrate the career and retirement of Alvin Plantinga, widely recognized as one of the world's leading figures in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of religion.

There are many insightful discussions of Hegel's practical philosophy that emphasize the uniqueness of his expressivist and social theory of agency, but few recognize that these two aspects of Hegel's theory of the will are insufficient to avoid the traditional problem of free will.

In recent years, philosophical discussions of free will have focused largely on whether or not free will is compatible with determinism.

In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H.

In Basic Structures of Reality, Colin McGinn deals with questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind from the vantage point of physics.

Reference and Existence, Saul Kripke's John Locke Lectures for 1973, can be read as a sequel to his classic Naming and Necessity.

This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which Hegel's project in his central Science of Logic has a single organizing focus, provided by taking metaphysics as fundamental to philosophy, rather than any epistemological problem about knowledge or intentionality.