Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 FernA!

Jordi FernA!

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?