Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human.

This study forms part of a wider investigation whieh will inquire into the relationship of Ontology and Anthropology.

This tenth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton presents, in-depth, the fifteenth major section in the personal notebooks Dr.

Die beste Einführung in das Denken von Martin HeideggerDer Satz vom Grund umfasst Heideggers letzte Vorlesung (1955/1956) und den gleichnamigen Vortrag.

This Element examines literature on essence in connection with the traditional question whether essence lies within or without our world.

This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy.

The problem of free will arises from ordinary, commonsense reflection.

Philosophers, both western and eastern, have long been divided between 'humanists', for whom 'man is the measure of things', and their opponents, who claim that there is a way, in principle knowable and describable, that the world anyway is, independent of human perspectives and interests.

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today's 24/7 culture.

What does it mean to be truthful?

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the modern period.

Studying with Husserl in G ttingen, becoming a Carmelite nun, and finally meeting her death in Auschwitz, the multifaceted life of Edith Stein (1891-1942) is well known.

This is the second of two collections of correspondence written by early modern English women philosophers.

Katherin A.

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality.

Philosophers working on the ontology of mind have highlighted various distinctions that can be drawn between the ways in which different aspects of our minds fill time.

Existentialisms arise when the foundations of being, such as meaning, morals, and purpose come under assault.

Counterfactuals is David Lewis' forceful presentation of and sustained argument for a particular view about propositions which express contrary to fact conditionals, including his famous defense of realism about possible worlds.

The issues of the nature and existence of God, time and infinity, respectively, and how they relate to each other, are some of the most complicated problems of metaphysics.

This edited collection of eight original essays pursues the aim of bringing the spotlight back on Anton Marty.

The doctrine of materialism is one of the most controversial in the history of ideas.

Well-Being and Death addresses philosophical questions about death and the good life: what makes a life go well?

Hegel and Speculative Realism has two main objectives.

Everything we do relies on causation.

In Concern for the Other: The Ethics of K.

Die metaphysikferne oder metaphysikentfremdete Philosophie der Gegenwart ist gleichermaßen der Wahrheitsfrage fern oder entfremdet, da die neuzeitliche Philosophie - und darin vor allem die Erkenntniskritik - eine Infragestellung der objektiven Wahrheit eingeleitet habe.

Mary Leng offers a defense of mathematical fictionalism, according to which we have no reason to believe that there are any mathematical objects.

Calling for a revival of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant, Kenneth Rose overcomes the forgetfulness of being through contemplative ontology.

Over recent decades, Spinoza scholarship has significantly developed in both France and the United States, shedding new light on the work of this major philosopher.

Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure.

Building a foundational understanding of the digital, Logic of the Digital reveals a unique digital ontology.

How are truths about physical and mental states related?

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being.

This book initiates fresh pedagogic thinking on the nature of intelligence and human potentiality in the midst of a rising panic over so-called artificial intelligence.

This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy.

This comprehensive Handbook offers a leading-edge yet accessible guide to the most important facets of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophical system, the last true system of German philosophy.

Mental action deserves a place among foundational topics in action theory and philosophy of mind.

This book explores various explanatory frameworks for paranormal encounters.