Scientific literature on particular themes in ontology is extremely abundant, but it is often very hard for freshmen or sophomores to find a red thread between the various proposals.
Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events disrupt the complacency of the ontological paradigm at the personal, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and political levels.
Dieser Essay stellt sich den grundlegendsten Fragen der Philosophie: der Frage nach dem Ursprung des Seins überhaupt, vor allem aber der Frage nach der Entstehung des Endlichen, weshalb wir dieses für unsere »Natur« halten und wie wir diesen Glauben aufbrechen können.
Environmental disasters, from wildfires and vanishing species to flooding and drought, have increased dramatically in recent years and debates about the environment are rarely far from the headlines.
Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism identifies an ethically and politically engaged philosophy of religion in eighteenth century Rational Dissent, particularly in the work of Richard Price (1723-1791), and in the radical thought of Mary Wollstonecraft.
This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.
This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.
This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Henryk Mehlberg, primarily because I want to recall his name to readers in the West; for, although Professor Mehlberg was the foremost Polish philosopher in the field of philosophy of time-in that version which is related to twentieth- century physics-his fundamental work concerning time was published in English 43 years after its original publication (cf.
Daß dieses Hauptwerk des italienischen Renaissancephilosophen Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525) nach seinem Erscheinen 1562 öffentlich verbrannt wurde, kann nicht überraschen; weist doch der Verfasser den Gedanken der Unsterblichkeit der Seele als unhaltbar zurück.
In the Romantic period, women writers developed specific aesthetics and writing strategies in their engagements with climate change and climate catastrophe.
This engaging volume sheds light on the central role the turn to the body plays in the philosophies of Spinoza and Nietzsche, providing an ideal starting point for understanding their work.
George Berkeley notoriously claimed that his immaterialist metaphysics was not only consistent with common sense but that it was also integral to its defense.
Italian philosophy constitutes one of the most vibrant and fruitful areas in contemporary thought, bringing extraordinary novelty to some of the oldest tropes, from human nature to the relation between political power and life, the thinking of actuality and potential, and the nature of work and labour.
Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason.
