Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy.

Claims about what is metaphysically necessary or possible have long played a central role in metaphysics and other areas of philosophy.

If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world?

If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world?

Kant once famously declared in the Prolegomena that "e;it was the objection of David Hume that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber.

Kant once famously declared in the Prolegomena that "e;it was the objection of David Hume that first, many years ago, interrupted my dogmatic slumber.

Recurrent questions about space have dogged philosophers since ancient times.

Good decisions account for risks.

Good decisions account for risks.

What is the source of logical and mathematical truth?

What is the source of logical and mathematical truth?

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.

How can we find solace when we face the death of loved ones?

How can we find solace when we face the death of loved ones?

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.

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.

In The Metaphysics of the Material World, Tad M.

In The Metaphysics of the Material World, Tad M.

John Dewey was the foremost philosophical figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century America.

The dead are gone.

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

'Mindblowing' Michael PollanWhy do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness?

George Herbert combined the intellectual and the spiritual, the humble and the divine, to create some of the most moving devotional poetry in the English language.

'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought.

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason.

Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece.

Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages.

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts.

No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller.

For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit.

The Metaphysics presents Aristotle's mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality and the hardheaded view that all processes are ultimately material.

'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate .

A new way of understanding the essence of moral obligationThe Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of moralitynamely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations.

This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful English diplomat, privateer and natural philosopher of the mid-1600s.

The book synthesizes research on the analysis of biomedical ontologies using formal concept analysis, including through auditing, curation, and enhancement.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of Fichte's philosophy.

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being.

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This monograph details a new solution to an old problem of metaphysics.

This book examines the nature of economic objects that form the subject matter of economics, and studies how they resemble or differ from the objects studied by the natural sciences.

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

This book explores persistence, taking human beings as an example case.

This book has two aims; first, to provide a new account of time's arrow in light of relativity theory; second, to explain how God, being eternal, relates to our world, marked as it is by change and time.

This book explores the thought of Alexius Meinong, a philosopher known for his unconventional theory of reference and predication.

This work celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality, the invisible, the sacred, and the mystical.

A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment.

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

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness.

Als 1929 der dritte Teil von Ernst Cassirers »Philosophie der symbolischen Formen«, die »Phänomenologie der Erkenntnis«, erschien, waren damit nicht alle für diesen Band verfassten Texte publiziert: Der eigentlich vorgesehene Schlussabschnitt fand darin keinen Platz mehr.