Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

David Hume's philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief.

David Hume's philosophical work presents the reader with a perplexing mix of constructive accounts of empirically guided belief and destructive sceptical arguments against all belief.

Giorgio Prodi (1928-1987) was an important Italian scientist who developed an original philosophy based on two basic assumptions: 1.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions.

What do philosophy and computer science have in common?

This work provides an overview of attempts to assess the current condition of the concept of creation order within reformational philosophy compared to other perspectives.

This book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible.

Whilst he broaches the theme of the difference between the sexes, Hegel does not go deep enough into the question of their mutual desire as a crucial stage in our becoming truly human.

This book suggests that to know how Wittgenstein's post-Tractarian philosophy could have developed from the work of Kant is to know how they relate to each other.

Theophobia is the latest volume in Bruce Beasley's ongoing spiritual meditation which forms a kind of postmodern devotional poetry in a reinvention of the tradition of John Donne, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T.

This book sheds light on Kant''s claim that the Critique of Pure Reason is a ''treatise'' or ''doctrine'' of method.

This book presents a new, contemporary introduction to medieval philosophy as it was practiced in all its variety in Western Europe and the Near East.

This book addresses death and immortality by paralleling Plato's philosophy of 'becoming like God' through exercising one's intellect and virtues, with the Greek archaic and heroic way of gaining immortal glory through remarkable deeds.

Philosophic Classics: From Plato to Derrida includes essential writings of the most important philosophers from almost two millennia of Western philosophy.

This book aims to redress the balance in the field of Contemporary Philosophy, considered predominantly male, by highlighting the philosophical achievements of various female figures during the period 1870-1970.

This book connects the philosophy of Henri Bergson to contemporary debates in metaphysics and analytic philosophy of religion.

Baruch de Spinozas 'Theologisch-politische Abhandlung' ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk, das sich mit der Verbindung zwischen Religion und Politik auseinandersetzt.

Die 'Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen Schopenhauer's' von Arthur Schopenhauer bieten einen tiefen Einblick in die Philosophie dieses bedeutenden Denkers des 19.

This book presents a novel metaphysics of concrete entities.

Este ebook presenta "Metafísica", con un índice dinámico y detallado.

This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism.

From ancient conceptions of becoming a philosopher to modern discussions of psychedelic drugs, the concept of transformation plays a fascinating part in the history of philosophy.

From ancient conceptions of becoming a philosopher to modern discussions of psychedelic drugs, the concept of transformation plays a fascinating part in the history of philosophy.

In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether or not we should choose to live forever.

In this book, Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether or not we should choose to live forever.

Markus Gabriel, Spiegel-Bestseller-Autor, zeigt in diesem Buch, dass das Denken Teil der biologischen Sinne ist, der nicht künstlich nachgebaut werden kann.

In this book, Michael Huemer and Bryan Frances debate whether - and how - we can gain knowledge of the world outside of our own minds.

Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben.

The book seeks to explore ways in which education research, policy and practice ought to be re-thought and re-enacted under present bio-political predicaments.

First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was i ek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece.

The past few decades have seen considerable interest in the history of analytic philosophy.

This pioneering book presents a reconstitution of Charles Sanders Peirce philosophical system as a coherent architecture of concepts that form a unified theory of reality.

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man.

Building from foundations of modern science and cosmic evolution, as well as psychological and philosophical perspectives of value and meaning, this book explores some of humanity's biggest questions:          Is the Universe about something ?

Journey Beyond the Looking Glass: Tap Into the Metaphysical WonderlandStep into the limitless realms of a world that exists beyond the threshold of imagination.

This volume examines the ontology of music groups.

Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as "e;bodies,"e; exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality.

Rom Harre's career spans more than 40 years of original contributions to the development of both psychology and other human and social sciences.

What makes someone a person-and what underlies their persistence over time?

What makes someone a person-and what underlies their persistence over time?

This monograph presents the first detailed exposition of the formal theory of Branching Space-Times.