Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Kein anderer Denker der klassischen deutschen Philosophie hat sich so wie Hegel mit dem Orient beschäftigt.

Thomas Reid (1710-96) was a contemporary of both David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and a central figure in the Scottish School of Common Sense.

Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true?

John Stuart Mill was one of the most important and influential philosophers of the nineteenth century.

This book challenges the prevailing, though often unacknowledged, view among most practicing scientists and philosophers that human free will is incompatible with the natural causality that is the basic presupposition of modern science.

On the traditional Cartesian picture, knowledge of one's own internal world -- of one's current thoughts and feelings -- is the unproblematic foundation for all knowledge.

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time.

The philosophical problem of identity and the related problem of change go back to the ancient Greek philosophers and fascinated later figures including Leibniz, Locke, and Hume.

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

The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics is an outstanding, comprehensive and accessible guide to the major themes, thinkers, and issues in metaphysics.

Deleuze's concept of 'becoming' provides the key to his notoriously complex metaphysics, yet it has not been systematized until now.

The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders.

Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader.

This book provides a general framework for understanding nature to revive the philosophical study of nature as a complementary research project to the empirical exploration of nature.

This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute.

Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives.

This Ingardenia volume is the second in the Analecta Husserliana series that is entirely devoted to the phenomenology of Roman Ingarden.

Covers key philosophical, interpretive and textual issues, including an extensive further reading essay and translation notes.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is generally regarded as the founder of pragmatism, and one of the greatest ever American philosophers.

This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier.

Henry E.

'Informative, accessible, and fun to read- this is an excellent reference guide for undergraduates and anyone wanting an introduction to the fundamental issues of metaphysics.

The past few decades have seen considerable interest in the history of analytic philosophy.

On Philosophy and Philosophers is a volume of unpublished papers by Richard Rorty, a central figure in late-twentieth-century philosophy.

This collection brings together new papers addressing the philosophical challenges that the concept of a Devil presents, bringing philosophical rigor to treatments of the Devil.

A translation of Schopenhauer''s major and influential work which contains his entire philosophical system.

What are scientific theories?

This book advances a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus that moves beyond the main interpretative options of the New Wittgenstein debate.

Metaphysics, almost entirely neglected by experimental philosophers, is the central focus of Experimental Metaphysics.

The Metaphysics of Good and Evil is the first, full-length contemporary defence, from the perspective of analytic philosophy, of the Scholastic theory of good and evil - the theory of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and most medieval and Thomistic philosophers.

The world is a complex place, and this complexity is an obstacle to our attempts to explain, predict, and control it.

This Element presents a philosophical exploration of the concept of the ''model organism'' in contemporary biology.

From Karl Marx to Wyndham Lewis, this book examines Max Stirner's influence on the modern manifesto.

Thoughts is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo which together constitute a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind.

An exploration of the creativity of the human mind in art, poetry, film and television, and in prose theological writing.

The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers reveals how great philosophers of the past sought to answer the question of the meaning of life.

Richard Cross provides the first complete and detailed account of Duns Scotus's theory of cognition, tracing the processes involved in cognition from sensation, through intuition and abstraction, to conceptual thought.

Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present.

Jennifer McKitrick offers an opinionated guide to the philosophy of dispositions.

All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "e;L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui"e;, Geneva, 3-5 June 1988.