Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Much of the most interesting work in philosophy today is metaphysical in character.

This volume presents a selection of the Proceedings of the Workshop on Anticipation, Agency and Complexity held in Trento (Italy) on April 2017.

"Allerdings, das ist eine grosse Frage, der ich zu sehr ausgewichen bin, die Evidenz des Ich als ein Identisches, das also doch nicht in dem Bündel bestehen kann.

This book explores the concept of consciousness when defined in the terms mind, spirit, soul and awareness.

The material reprinted in this two-volume set, first published in 1989, covers the first eighty-five years in responses to George Berkeley's writings.

This pioneering book presents a reconstitution of Charles Sanders Peirce philosophical system as a coherent architecture of concepts that form a unified theory of reality.

During the last twenty years, the theory of recognition has become an established field of philosophy and social studies.

This book offers a broad critical study of Heidegger's lifelong effort to come to terms with the problem of phenomena and the nature of phenomenology: How do we experience beings as meaningful phenomena?

Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades.

The dominant paradigm of the economy is based on homo economicus and its positivist, mechanistic and utilitarian approach.

Since the time of the Greek philosopher Zeno (fifth century BCE), our faculty of analytic understanding has failed to comprehend motion through the ages.

Oliver Keenan brings the medieval philosophy of Thomas Aquinas to life.

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

Argues that sceptical metaphysicians employ shadows of familiar objects, while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really exist.

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This book provides a systematic analysis of how Alexandrian Jews interpreted the Bible in light of contemporary Homeric scholarship.

New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz is famous for his conversion from 1960s radicalism.

This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time.

These previously unpublished essays present the newest developments in the thought of philosophers working on action and its explanation, focusing on a wide range of interlocking issues relating to agency, deliberation, motivation, mental causation, teleology, interpretive explanation and the ontology of actions and their reasons.

Art, Language and Figure in Merleau-Ponty: Excursions in Hyper-Dialectic considers Merleau-Ponty's later ontology of language in the light of his “figured philosophy,” which places the work of art at the centre of its investigation.

A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment.

This book presents new research into key areas of the work of German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716).

Man as a Place of God is an examination of Levinas' philosophy of religion in the light of his ethics and anthropology.

This book is an anthology on metaphysics understood in a neo-Aristotelian manner: metaphysics as the first philosophy.

Combining physics and philosophy, this interdisciplinary examination of quantum information science provides an up-to-date examination of developments in this field.

Von allen Philosophen stehe ihm Nietzsche am nächsten, hat Heidegger einmal geschrieben, wenn er ihm auch in der Seinsfrage am fernsten sei.

The concepts of particular and universal have become so familiar that their significance has become difficult to discern, like coins that have been passed back and forth too many times, worn smooth so their values can no longer be read.

This volume presents a new view of the relationship between metaphysics and the theory of meaning.

Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations.

Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant provides the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786).

The God Debates presents a comprehensive, non-technical survey of the quest for knowledge of God, allowing readers to participate in a debate about the existence of God and gain understanding and appreciation of religion?

Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology.

Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century.

Salience is both central to human life and relatively underexplored as a philosophical topic.

Kant is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher of modern times.

This volume contains twenty-four essays by the British/Australian analytic metaphysician, Brian Garrett.

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

Analyzing the importance of joy, laughter, and cheerfulness in Nietzsche's thought, this volume addresses an under-examined topic in the secondary literature.

Socrates' greatest philosophical contribution was to have initiated the search for definitions.

Peter Sloterdijk is an internationally renowned philosopher and thinker whose work is now seen as increasingly relevant to our contemporary world situation and the multiple crises that punctuate it, including those within ethical, political, economic, technological, and ecological realms.