Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Originally published in 1964.

Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw.

Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental.

There is a close connection in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's mind between the notions of self and substance.

We inhabit a world not only full of natural dispositions independent of human design, but also artificial dispositions created by our technological prowess.

Experience and Possibility concerns the modal ontology of experience.

The dramatic progress of smartphone technologies has ushered in a new era of mobile sensing, where traditional wearable on-body sensors are being rapidly superseded by various embedded sensors in our smartphones.

If there has been some modest advance, since Karl Popper's death in 1994, in the general understanding of his critical rationalist theory of knowledge and philosophy of science, there is still widespread resistance both to it and to the recognition of the magnitude of his contribution.

In China, the debate over the moral status of emotions began around the fourth century BCE, when early philosophers first began to invoke psychological categories such as the mind (xin), human nature (xing), and emotions (qing) to explain the sources of ethical authority and the foundations of knowledge about the world.

Originally published in 1976.

The relationship between these two central theoretical and philosophical approaches, which we thought we knew, is more complex and interesting than our standard story might suggest.

Die in diesem Band von Forschern aus Rostock, Greifswald, Berlin, Hamburg und Osnabrück vorgelegten Beitrage zu Leben und Werk Immanuel Kants sind Ausdruck eines produktiven aktuellen, zum großen Teil auch innovativen, relevanten kritischen Kantverständnisses.

Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a change in that object's ontological status has been a key philosophical concept throughout history.

This edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars.

This book addresses the philosophy of Kant and the poetry of Shelley as historical starting points for a new way of thinking in the modern age.

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.

Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by present-day disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology.

Challenges the idea that knowledge of a conclusion requires knowledge of essential premises, a widely accepted concept in epistemology.

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

Heidegger's Politics of Enframing examines the controversial political choices made by Heidegger, the one-time Nazi party member, and articulates a direct connection between his troubling political decisions and his late thoughts on technology.

Samuel Newlands provides a sweeping new account of Spinoza's metaphysical system and the way it shapes and is shaped by his moral project.

Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative.

This book offers an accessible and inclusive overview of the major debates in the philosophy of action.

A compelling view of existence as a realization of power, possessing an internal structure akin to that of geometrical objects.

Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term.

A Chance for Possibility defends the view that the objective modal realm is tripartite: truths about possible worlds supervene on modal truths, which in turn supervene on truths about objective chances.

In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia.

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 book investigates the thought of two of the most influential philosophers of antiquity, Plato and his predecessor Anaxagoras, with respect to their metaphysical accounts of objects and their properties.

Learn about the primal beliefs to the world's great faiths in The Religions Book.

In this small book, theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel prize 1999), philosopher Emanuele Severino (Lincei Academician), and theologian Piero Coda (Pontifical Lateran University) confront one another on a topic that lies at the roots of quantum mechanics and at the origin of Western thought: Determinism and Free Will.

Causal powers are returning to the forefront of realist philosophy of science.

Nothing is not.

Philosophers have long theorized about what makes people's lives go well, and why, and the extent to which morality and self-interest can be reconciled.

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap?

Autoimmunity refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism or body mounts an immune response against its own tissues.

Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved.

Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate.

Robert Pasnau traces the developments of metaphysical thinking through four rich but for the most part neglected centuries of philosophy, running from the thirteenth century through to the seventeenth.

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Arzt und Philosoph, hat aus den Traditionen des Neuplatonismus heraus das gesamte Erbe der antiken und mittelalterlichen Geheimwissenschaften (Alchemie, Astrologie, Magie, Divination etc.

Jonathan Edwards is generally acknowledged as one of the foremost American philosophers.

Die Problemlage, von der Sallis ausgeht, ist die noch keineswegs bewältigte, aber auch nicht mehr mit Aussicht auf Erfolg revidierbare Einsicht, dass die das abendländische Denken von Beginn an leitende Hoffnung, die dem Menschen gegebene Vernunft biete ihm die Chance zur Erkenntnis des Absoluten und damit der Sinnhaftigkeit seines Daseins, sich als eine unverzichtbare, aber uneinlösbare Illusion entpuppte.

We all wish to know whence we have come and whither we are going.