Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

What is given to us in conscious experience?

John Searles The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Sotos The Mystery of Capitalshifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken for granted in developed nations.

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Nicolai Hartmann was one of the most prolific and original, yet sober, clear and rigorous, 20th century German philosophers.

First published in 1990 The Philosopher's Habitat introduces the subject by investigating a variety of the problems which are currently engaging philosophers, and which can be made intelligible to an absolute beginner.

For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to "e;discover"e; the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of a continuous present, or whether it too rises and falls with the cycles of universal creation and destruction.

The concept of a relational self has been prominent in feminism, communitarianism, narrative self theories, and social network theories, and has been important to theorizing about practical dimensions of selfhood.

In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory.

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness.

Philosophical questions regarding the nature and methodology of philosophical inquiry have garnered much attention in recent years.

Originally published in 1931, this book follows the sceptical principles of Bradley to their logical conclusions, pushing them even further than Bradley was willing to go.

In his work on metaphysics, Spinoza associates reasons with causes or explanations.

It is not far-fetched to say that much of what is termed "e;African metaphysics"e; remains a traditional affair, without the sort of critical analysis that sheds away the burden of myths and ethnocentric rigidity.

In From Metaphysics to Decision Making, Alexander Mitjashin argues that the laws of logic should be regarded as a paraphrase of an ontology an understanding of being whose components are distinct one from another, no matter how similar we may consider them.

First published in 1998, this volume has its origin in a meeting that was held in Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in January 1996.

Model theory is used in every theoretical branch of analytic philosophy: in philosophy of mathematics, in philosophy of science, in philosophy of language, in philosophical logic, and in metaphysics.

In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy.

Complementary to Theism and Cosmology, this book begins with a discussion of philosophical and theological idea-ism, and our common beliefs concerning nature, man, and God.

In this book, Jim Ruddy has proceeded deep into the hub-center of Husserl's transcendental subjectivity and unearthed an utterly new phenomenological method.

This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason.

Proceeds in a logical fashion to show how, when thinking morally, a man can be both free and rational.

Yitzhak Melamed here offers a new and systematic interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics.

In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers.

Most people have the same fundamental yearnings and questions inside of them.

Although there is a huge literature on Nietzsche's philosophy, this is the first study in English that focuses on his ontology.

For too long, scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue.

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This handbook presents the conceptions and principles central to every aspect of Hegel's systematic philosophy.

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.

Dies ist die erste philosophische Monografie zum Thema Kopieren: Amrei Bahr analysiert auf der Grundlage einer begrifflichen Untersuchung und anhand zahlreicher Beispiele die Auswirkungen des Kopierens auf die moralischen Rechte von Urheber:innen und entwickelt eine philosophische Theorie der Kopie.

What is given to us in conscious experience?

This book explores the question of why there is something instead of nothing.

The thought and the findings of moral particularism are extended to contextualism.

This book provides a systematic examination of the relations between the key elements of Spinoza''s philosophy and the Stoics.

Analyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows how their styles are not merely ornamental but fundamental to building their own temporalities.

This unique anthology of new, contributed essays offers a range of perspectives on various aspects of ontic vagueness.

Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment!

Maine de Biran's work has had an enormous influence on the development of French Philosophy – Henri Bergson called him the greatest French metaphysician since Descartes and Malebranche, Jules Lachelier referred to him as the French Kant, and Royer-Collard called him simply 'the master of us all' – and yet the philosopher and his work remain unknown to many English speaking readers.

First published in 1995, this book aims at rehabilitating systematic aesthetics.

Should you care less about your distant future?

There is abundant evidence that most people, often in spite of their conscious beliefs, values and attitudes, have implicit biases.

Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary materials objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse.

Addressing Heidegger's continuing centrality to continental thought, Markus Weidler argues that Heidegger's prickly charm is best explained in terms of his great ingenuity, crafting a novel genre of writing which promises to harness the revelatory power of artworks for the purpose of philosophical inquiry.

Christopher Hookway presents a series of essays on the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1913), the 'founder of pragmatism' and one of the most important and original American philosophers.