Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

The long tradition of pessimism in philosophy and poetry notoriously laments suffering caused by vulnerabilities of the human body.

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In this book, Reiss argues in favor of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences.

"e;To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.

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 addresses whether personal identity is analyzable, with innovative discussion of ''complex'' and ''simple'' theories.

This essay is the product of years of distaste for, and dissatisfaction with, the efforts of moral philosophers.

Wolfgang Spohn presents the first full account of the dynamic laws of belief, by means of ranking theory.

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers.

There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up.

This collection offers a critical assessment of transcendentalism, the understanding of consciousness, absolutized as a system of a priori laws of the mind, that was advanced by Kant and Husserl.

Does the fact that everything has a cause imply that all events are causally determined?

Drawing on evidence from a wide range of classical Chinese texts, this book argues that xingershangxue, the study of "e;beyond form"e;, constitutes the core argument and intellectual foundation of Daoist philosophy.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWhat does Heidegger mean by 'Dasein'?

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Exploring the rupture between Wittgenstein's early and late phases, Michael Smith provides an original re-assessment of the metaphysical consistencies that exist throughout his divergent texts.

Die radikale Gesellschaftskritik Theodor W.

This book is the culmination of over 15 years of research on terrorism, secession, and related concepts such as the obligation to obey the law, pacifism, civil disobedience, non-violent direct action, political violence, revolution, and assassination.

First published in 1935, The Life and Writings of Giambattista Vico is a succinct biography of the Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico.

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist.

The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options.

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A major goal for compatibilists is to avoid the luck problem and to include all the facts from neuroscience and natural science in general which purportedly show that the brain works in a law-governed and causal way like any other part of nature.

Moral values are real-we don't just make them up.

The world is populated with many different objects, to which we often attribute properties: we say, for example, that grass is green, that the earth is spherical, that humans are animals, and that murder is wrong.

This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others.

Originally published in 1970.

Mit der Begründung der philosophischen Ästhetik stößt Baumgarten an Grenzen, vor denen der cartesianische Rationalismus haltgemacht hatte.

This book argues that Kant develops a theory of perception in the Critique of Judgment from which one can redefine his entire project, viewing and using aesthetics as its backbone, from the transcendental aesthetic of the First Critique to the Critique of Taste in the Third.

A study of contemplative prayer in the context of contemporary discussions of religious experience and mysticism.

Aristotle's Topics is a handbook for dialectic, which can be understood as a philosophical debate between a questioner and a respondent.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

The Semantic Web is a young discipline, even if only in comparison to other areas of computer science.

In the past few decades a remarkable change occurred in Kant scholarship: the "e;other"e; Kant has been discovered, i.

What do we mean when we say that something is?

First published in 1925, Adventures in Philosophy presents a series of essays dealing with some of the chief problems of metaphysics and beginning with a defence of that somewhat unpopular pursuit.

The first English-language contributory volume on Chinese metaphysics, covering all major traditions from pre-Qin to the modern period.

This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit.

Ordnungen sind nicht einfach "gut", weil sie Ordnungen sind, und sie gelten auch nicht per se, wie man naiv annehmen könnte.

Operating as a machine upon the terrain of theoretical truth procedures, philosophy's radical potential describes a militant cartography: interpretation, demarcation, clarification, and demystification.

Originally published in 1963.