Engages with one of the oldest philosophical problems-the relationship between thought and being-and offers a fresh perspective with which to approach the long history of this puzzle.
The book discusses recent developments in philosophy with regards to how historical events can be explained causally and introduces perspectives from the philosophy of science into the philosophy of history.
This book describes a set of methods, architectures, and tools to extend the data pipeline at the disposal of developers when they need to publish and consume data from Knowledge Graphs (graph-structured knowledge bases that describe the entities and relations within a domain in a semantically meaningful way) using SPARQL, Web APIs, and JSON.
According to the libertarian position on free will, people sometimes exercise free will, but this freedom is incompatible with the truth of causal determinism.
This book suggests that to know how Wittgenstein's post-Tractarian philosophy could have developed from the work of Kant is to know how they relate to each other.
During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played a decisive role in St.
'Sentido y existencia', obra principal de Markus Gabriel, aborda el tema de la validez y los límites de la ontología y la metafísica con un extraordinario conocimiento tanto de la historia de la filosofía como de la moderna teoría de la ciencia.
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists.
This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Kantian principle that 'objects conform to our cognition' from the perspective of a Copernican world-view which stands diametrically opposed to Kant's because founded on the principle that our cognition conforms to objects.
Die vorliegende Arbeit ist aus Studien übel' das Problem des Natur rechtes entstanden, in deren Verlauf sich immer deutlicher hera~sgestellt hat, daß dieses Problem nur einen Teilaspekt universell verbreiteter und das vor- und außerphilosophische Denken ebenso wie die sogenannte traditionelle Philosophie zumindest maßgeblich mitbestimmender Formen der Weltauffassung darstellt.
In a systematic treatment of Hegel's concept of philosophy and all of the different aspects related to it, this collection explores how Hegel and his understanding of his discipline can be put into dialogue with current metaphilosophical inquiries and shed light on the philosophical examination of the nature of philosophy itself.
This book illustrates the vitality and diversity of the seventeenth-century philosophers now known as the "e;Cambridge Platonists"e;, focusing chiefly on Henry More, Ralph Cudworth and two women associated with the group - Anne Conway and Damaris Masham.
A world ever more extensively interlinked is calling out for serving human interests broader and more compelling than those inspiring our technological welfare.
This collection is a major contribution to the understanding and evaluation of Ernest Sosa's profound and wide-ranging philosophy, in epistemology and beyond.
Fred Feldman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is widely recognized for his subtle defense of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plain-spoken and exact philosophical style.
Many different features of the world figure consciously in our perceptual experiences, in the sense that they make a subjective difference to those experiences.
This volume consists of 12 essays published by the author between the years 1997-2007, a thirteenth paper read at a conference in 2006, and a long introduction prepared specifically for the collection.
Part 1, Practices for the Quest, goes to the heart of various disciplines, exercises, and techniques that are useful at various stages of spiritual self-discovery and self-development.
