Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

During the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society at Christmas1923, Rudolf Steiner also reconstituted the "e;Esoteric School"e; which had originally functioned in Germany from 1904 until 1914, when the outset of the First World War made it's continuance impossible.

Dispositionalism, perhaps the most popular variant of non-Humean metaphysics, submits that dispositions, powers, or capacities, are part of the furniture of the world.

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "e;abominable heresies"e; and "e;monstrous deeds,"e; the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's import business to dedicate his life to philosophy.

The present volume contains many of the papers presented at a four-day conference held by the Husserl-Archives in Leuven in April 2009 to c- memorate the one hundred and ?

The Ethics of Time utilizes the resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics to explore this under-charted field of philosophical inquiry.

Debate regarding organ sales is largely innocent of the history of thought on the matter.

Humanness supposes innate and profound reflexivity.

If we see ourselves as Earth rather than Earth as existing for us our perspective is transformed.

The Atlas of REALITY The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics presents an extensive examination of the key concepts, principles, and arguments of metaphysics, traditionally the very core of philosophical thought.

Physicalism, the thesis that everything is physical, is one of the most controversial problems in philosophy.

Diese frühen und umfänglichsten Untersuchungen des Thomas von Aquin werden mit dem Begriff der Wahrheit eröffnet, der diesen Erörterungen den Titel gegeben hat.

It was well known to the Greeks that the phenomenon of vagueness in natural language gives rise to hard problems and paradoxes, yet more than two millennia passed before Philosophy began to pay any degree of concerted attention to the challenges of vagueness to match the effort expended, for example, on the Liar paradox and its kin.

Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar.

Vagueness is a familiar but deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world.

A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious ''synthetic judgments a priori''.

Since the ages of the Old Testament, the Homeric myths, the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium, the theme of loneliness has dominated and haunted the Western world.

This book deals with an old conundrum: if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how can we be free to choose otherwise?

This book provides a coherent and unifying view for logic and representation learning to contribute to knowledge graph (KG) reasoning and produce better computational tools for integrating both worlds.

In The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger''s ''Being and Time'', seventeen leading scholars explore the central themes of Heidegger''s revolutionary work.

A certain kind of talk is ubiquitous among both philosophers and so-called "e;ordinary people"e;: talk of one phenomenon generating or giving rise to another, or talk of one phenomenon being based in or constructed from another.

This book brings together the debate concerning personal identity (in metaphysics) and central topics in biomedical ethics (conception of birth and death; autonomy, living wills and paternalism).

For too long certain scholars have been content to portray Irenaeus of Lyons as a well-meaning churchman but incompetent theologian.

Aristotle's Metaphysics 2 consists of two chapters on methodology flanking an important discussion of the impossibility of infinite causal chains.

Contemporary Materialism brings together the best recent work on materialism from many of our leading contemporary philosophers.

Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience.

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Als 1929 der dritte Teil von Ernst Cassirers »Philosophie der symbolischen Formen«, die »Phänomenologie der Erkenntnis«, erschien, waren damit nicht alle für diesen Band verfassten Texte publiziert: Der eigentlich vorgesehene Schlussabschnitt fand darin keinen Platz mehr.

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Much contemporary metaphysics, moved by an apparent necessity to take reality to consist of given beings and properties, presents us with what appear to be deep problems requiring radical changes in the common sense conception of persons and the world.

There are few more unsettling philosophical questions than this: What happens in attempts to reduce some properties to some other more fundamental properties?

Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use.

This book examines the metaphysical issues regarding the powerful qualities view in all its various forms.

The first book-length comparative study of Wittgenstein''s and Davidson''s philosophies, exploring their similarities and demonstrating their continuing relevance to modern debates.

This Element examines literature on essence in connection with the traditional question whether essence lies within or without our world.

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use?

In this new collection of recent essays, Habermas takes up and pursues the line of analysis begun in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.

Reading McDowell: On Mind and World brings together an exceptional list of contributors to analyse and discuss McDowell's challenging and influential book, one of the most influential contributions to contemporary philosophy in recent years.

This compelling book defends realism concerning the aesthetic-in particular, concerning the aesthetic properties of works of art (including works of literature).

This book develops an original interpretation of the relationship between F.

In his book, philosopher and law professor Ken Levy explains why he agrees with most people, but not with most other philosophers, about free will and responsibility.

The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all.

This book addresses the issue of natural simultaneity of relatives, discussed by Aristotle in Categories 7, 7b15- 8a12.

Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years.

Philosophy and Mystification reflects on the nature, methods and resources of philosophic enquiry are carefully grounded in the central problems that have dogged Western philosophy in the modern era: logical necessity, machine intelligence, the relation of science and religion, determinism, scepticism and the questions of foundations and origins.