Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated.

Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated.

Truth is one of the central concepts in philosophy, and has been a perennial subject of study.

Truth is one of the central concepts in philosophy, and has been a perennial subject of study.

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

The theory of relativity convinced many philosophers that space and time are fundamentally alike, and that they are mere aspects of a more fundamental space-time.

Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth.

Proclus (412-485 A.

Proclus (412-485 A.

Many significant problems in metaphysics are tied to ontological questions, but ontology and its relation to larger questions in metaphysics give rise to a series of puzzles that suggest that we don't fully understand what ontology is supposed to do, nor what ambitions metaphysics can have for finding out about what reality is like.

God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism is a defense of God's aseity and unique status as the Creator of all things apart from Himself in the face of the challenge posed by mathematical Platonism.

God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism is a defense of God's aseity and unique status as the Creator of all things apart from Himself in the face of the challenge posed by mathematical Platonism.

The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

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

[T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of morality.

[T]he present groundwork is nothing more than the identification and vindication of the supreme principle of morality.

Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them.

Joshua Gert presents an original account of color properties, and of our perception of them.

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

Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (17141762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant.

Towards Non-Being presents an account of the semantics of intentional language--verbs such as 'believes', 'fears', 'seeks', 'imagines'.

Christian Pfeiffer explores an important, but neglected topic in Aristotle's theoretical philosophy: the theory of bodies.

Simon J.

Simon J.

There has been a philosophical upheaval recently in our understanding of the metaphysics of the mind.

Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts.

The Subject of Experience is about the self, the person.

The Subject of Experience is about the self, the person.

What are we?

Many significant problems in metaphysics are tied to ontological questions, but ontology and its relation to larger questions in metaphysics give rise to a series of puzzles that suggest that we don't fully understand what ontology is supposed to do, nor what ambitions metaphysics can have for finding out about what reality is like.

Between Logic and the World presents a theory of generic sentences and the kind-directed modes of thought they express.

Gila Sher approaches knowledge from the perspective of the basic human epistemic situation--the situation of limited yet resourceful beings, living in a complex world and aspiring to know it in its full complexity.

This collection of new essays on the systematic thought and intellectual legacy of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) comes at a time when Sellars's influence on contemporary debates about mind, meaning, knowledge, and metaphysics has never been greater.

This work presents a historically informed, systematic exposition of the Christology of the first seven Ecumenical Councils of undivided Christendom, from the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 AD.

This work presents a historically informed, systematic exposition of the Christology of the first seven Ecumenical Councils of undivided Christendom, from the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 AD.

This volume brings together nineteen of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy.

Analytic philosophy is once again in a methodological frame of mind.

Graham Priest presents an exploration of Buddhist metaphysics, drawing on texts which include those of NAGBPgAGBPrjuna and DAugen.

What is truth?

What is truth?

Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE.

Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations.

Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations.

Do we have free will and moral responsibility?

Do we have free will and moral responsibility?

This volume explores the philosophical issues involved in the idea of petitionary prayer, where this is conceived as an activity designed to influence the action of the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God of traditional theism.

This volume explores the philosophical issues involved in the idea of petitionary prayer, where this is conceived as an activity designed to influence the action of the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God of traditional theism.

What makes up reality, and how?

What makes up reality, and how?