Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This collection of specially commissioned new essays explores the philosophical issues and subjects of Aquinas''s major work.

This book examines the importance, possibilities, and complexities of the university as an ethical academy.

Critics and artists (including performing artists) claim the title of 'interpreter' for themselves.

Scientific literature on particular themes in ontology is extremely abundant, but it is often very hard for freshmen or sophomores to find a red thread between the various proposals.

We find "e;vertical"e; relations in many different realms, whether between atoms and molecules, words and sentences, neurons and brains, or individuals and societies.

The word 'rationality' and its cognates, like 'reason', have multiple contexts and connotations.

This Oxford Handbook provides an overview of many of the topics that currently engage philosophers of physics.

The Seventeenth-Century philosopher, scientist, poet, playwright, and novelist Margaret Cavendish went to battle with the great thinkers of her time, and arguably got the better of them in many cases.

One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic.

The two texts translated in this volume of the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series both compare the happiness of the practical life, which is subject to the hazards of fortune, with the happiness of the life of philosophical contemplation, which is subject to fewer needs.

This is the first volume focused on Markus Gabriel's version of New Realism, which spans the fields of metaphysics/ontology, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of science, and meta-philosophy.

An original and lucid discussion of the Republic''s philosopher-rulers, their dialectic, and their relationship to the form of the good.

In this study, Oaklander's primary aim is to examine critically C.

This volume offers a defense of Leibniz's theodicy and his infamous claim that our world is the best of all possible worlds.

The ever-present possibility of death forces upon us the question of life's meaning and for this reason death has been a central concern of philosophers throughout history.

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.

Provides new insights into contemporary debates surrounding the metaphysics of objects, a subject undergoing an important revival.

In this book, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem.

This book presents three lectures by Allan Hobson, entitled "e;The William James Lectures on Dream Consciousness"e;.

Analyzes what abstract formulae say about the empirical phenomena of evolution, using philosophical approaches.

Frege's invention of the predicate calculus has been the most influential event in the history of modern logic.

This is the first modern edition of the works of Lady Mary Shepherd, one of the most important women philosophers of the early modern period.

Heidegger presented reflections on animality most extensively in his 1929-30 lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics.

What is time?

Joseph Acquisto examines literary writers and critical theorists who employ theological frameworks, but who divorce that framework from questions of belief and thereby remove the doctrine of salvation from their considerations.

In nine new essays, distinguished philosophers of science take on outstanding philosophical issues that arise in the exploration of the foundations of contemporary, especially physical scientific theories.

Discussing the decline of faith and the rise of love in the modern era, Colby Dickinson proposes a critique of religious belief which addresses how a secular world can continue to mine religious traditions for their conceptual and emotional riches.

Dieses Buch bietet erstmals den Versuch, die digitale Technologie, das Internet und die digitale Kommunikation umfassender zu verstehen und in einem größeren interdisziplinären Kontext zu interpretieren.

This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.

We say "e;the grass is green"e; or "e;lemons are yellow"e; to state what everyone knows.

"e;Making the Human Mind"e; is an attack on the widespread assumption that the mind has parts and that it is the interaction between these parts which accounts for some of the most characteristic human behaviour, the sorts of irrational behaviour displayed in self-deception and weakness of will.

This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM).

This work celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality, the invisible, the sacred, and the mystical.

Parthood and composition are everywhere.

Examines gene-based neo-Darwinism in light of current knowledge of genetic, epigenetic, behavioural and symbolic inheritance systems.

In this small book, Ulrich Steinvorth describes the reasons why analytic philosophy, which started as an anti-metaphysical project, has become a strong advocate of metaphysics, and why it must become synthetic, normative, and naturalistic.

Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit.

On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University.

Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical.

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa.

Human beings are not model epistemic citizens.

This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions-one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems.

This book redraws the intellectual map and sets the agenda in philosophy for the next fifty or so years.

The present work is an attempt to analyse critically Plato's views on mind and body and more particularly on the mind-body relationship within the wider setting of Plato's metaphysics.