Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

What would tempt you to whistleblow?

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

This edited volume explores the intersections of the human, nonhuman, transhuman, and posthuman from a phenomenological perspective.

An accessible and comprehensive examination of ontological arguments, their history and their importance.

Mulla Sadra is one of the most important Islamic philosophers after Avicenna.

Linked Data (LD) is a well-established standard for publishing and managing structured information on the Web, gathering and bridging together knowledge from different scientific and commercial domains.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by BertrandRussell as 'one of the supreme intellects of all time'.

Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of 'what there is'.

Does the soul have parts?

This volume brings together 12 essays exploring the history of theories of definition and essence in Western philosophy from Aristotle to Kant.

This book is based on my doctoral dissertation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996) of the same title.

The writings of Kierkegaard continue to be a fertile source for con- temporary philosophical thought.

Teleology is the belief that some things happen, or exist for the sake of other things.

Aristotle's views on the fundamental nature of reality are usually taken to be inconsistent.

Each of the following claims has been defended in the scientific literature on free will and consciousness: your brain routinely decides what you will do before you become conscious of its decision; there is only a 100 millisecond window of opportunity for free will, and all it can do is veto conscious decisions, intentions, or urges; intentions never play a role in producing corresponding actions; and free will is an illusion.

If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible.

Many have been attracted to the idea that for something to be good there just have to be reasons to favour it.

This book draws on advances in computational neuroscience and theoretical biology to provide a clear and accessible agentive account of the nature of causality and scientific explanations.

Mereology is the theory which deals with parts and wholes in the concrete sense, and this study follows its varied fortunes during the Middle Ages.

Originally published in 1991.

This comprehensive introductory guide includes discussion of the major contemporary positions on compatibilism and incompatibilism, and of the central arguments that are a focus of the current debate, including the Consequence Argument, manipulation arguments, and Frankfurt's famous argument against the 'Principle of Alternate Possibilities.

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is the forum for the best new work in this flourishing field.

This volume brings together fourteen mostly previously published articles by the prominent Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark.

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

This book is about the roots of managerial rationality.

The chapters in this volume clarify the notion of political identity by focusing on the metaphysics of polities.

The Phenomenology of Spirit was Hegel's grandest experiment, changing our vision of the world and the very nature of philosophical enterprise.

The Harvard philosopher Donald C.

Though John Locke set out to write a book that would resolve questions about the origin and scope of human knowledge, his Essay Concerning Human Understanding is also a profound contribution to metaphysics, full of arguments about the fundamental features of bodies, the notions of essence and kind, the individuation of material objects, personal identity, the nature and scope of volition, freedom of action, freedom of will, and the relationship between matter and mind.

This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the problem of a priori knowledge from a historical as well as a systematic perspective.

Cultural domination has received attention inside and outside of academia, but it remains under-explored in recent philosophical debate.

The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good.

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.

Jan Patocka's contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

Dieser Band ist der zweite Teil des Werkes "System der Philosophie", dessen erster Teil, ebenfalls im selben Verlag erschienen, sich mit der Logik beschäftigt.

David Henderson and Terence Horgan set out a broad new approach to epistemology, which they see as a mixed discipline, having both a priori and empirical elements.

This book provides a survey of key process-philosophical approaches that, in conversation with selected concepts across the biological and physical sciences, help us to think about living processes, or 'lived time,' at different scales of functioning.