Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This book addresses the flaws and fallacies in the grounds for atheism and theism - flaws and fallacies that contaminate the arguments of non-believers and believers alike.

In The Nature of God, Gerard Hughes takes the central attributes ascribed to God, such as Existence, Simplicity, Omniscience, Omnipotence and Goodness and gives them a historical and analytical background.

Are there universal properties grounding our sense of resemblance or qualitative identity among a number of distinct things or events which appear to form a class, a type or a kind of some other sort?

An application of Gurdjieffian principles to fully and properly activate the power of language *; Explains the relationship between the Gurdjieff enneagram and sacred geometry and harmonics *; Shows that the objective power of language--and art and music--lies in the ability to use symbols that will mean precisely the same thing to anyone *; Includes a new English translation of Ren Daumal's essay ';The Holy War' In The Magic Language of the Fourth Way, Pierre Bonnasse applies the esoteric teachings of Fourth Way mystic G.

In The Foundations of Arithmetic, Gottlob Frege contended that the difference between concepts and objects was absolute.

How did our universe come to be?

Die vorliegenden »Quaestionen »erörtern Fragen der Willensfreiheit in einem Rahmen, der in der zeitgenössischen Philosophie weitgehend verloren ist: in einer Metaphysik des Seins, welches auf sein Gut-Sein hin befragt wird.

In a footnote to the Preface of his A nthropology Kant gives, if not altogether accurately, the historical background for the publication of this work.

Existential gratitude-gratitude for one's very existence or life as a whole-is pervasive across the most influential human, cultural and religious traditions.

Natural kinds is a widely used and pivotal concept in philosophy - the idea being that the classifications and taxonomies employed by science correspond to the real kinds in nature.

This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as well as its extension to the notions of human and machine consciousness.

Much contemporary scholarship on free will focuses on whether it is compatible with causal determinism.

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

This volume aims to apply ontological theories and arguments to theistic beliefs and theistic world views.

To what extent are we responsible for our actions?

The relationship between intelligent systems and their environment is at the forefront of research in cognitive science.

Contemplation, according to Thomas Aquinas, is the central goal of our life.

In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus.

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected.

Chance and Temporal Asymmetry presents a collection of cutting-edge research papers in the metaphysics of science, tackling the perplexing philosophical problems raised by recent progress in the physics and metaphysics of chance and time.

How do we explain the truth of true propositions?

This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy's theoretical representations.

John Searles The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Sotos The Mystery of Capitalshifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken for granted in developed nations.

For Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the "e;enormous flywheel"e; of society.

Addiction argues that addiction should be understood not as a disease but as a phenomenon that must be understood on many levels at once.

This is a paragraph-by-paragraph commentary on Kant''s seminal work of moral philosophy.

Abstract objects have been a central topic in philosophy since antiquity.

This book has two aims; first, to provide a new account of time's arrow in light of relativity theory; second, to explain how God, being eternal, relates to our world, marked as it is by change and time.

Offers the first comprehensive textbook covering the interrelations between topics in the philosophy of logic in an accessible, non-technical, and up-to-date way.

Pensar sólo acontece como aprendizaje, pues el pensar mismo está siempre de camino hacia el pensar.

Kant's influence on the history of philosophy is vast and protean.

A venerable tradition in the metaphysics of science commends ontological reduction: the practice of analysis of theoretical entities into further and further proper parts, with the understanding that the original entity is nothing but the sum of these.

During the seventies, there was a revival of systematic philosophy in general and of ontology in particular.

This book offers a unique perspective on one of the deepest questions about the world we live in: is reality multi-leveled, or can everything be reduced to some fundamental 'flat' level?

John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years.

Early Greek Ethics is devoted to Greek philosophical ethics in its formative period, from the last decades of the sixth century BCE to the beginning of the fourth century BCE.

Part 1 of the fourth volume of Paul Brunton's Notebooks series, bound here separately in paperback.

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

Are fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes real?

This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy.

This book is a systematic investigation into the metaphysical foundations of identity over time.

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell's views on modal logic and logical relevance, arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic.

Explores the problem of blame in moral philosophy, setting out a new theory of blame, free will, and moral responsibility.

In this book Christopher Belshaw draws on earlier work concerning death, identity, animals, immortality, and extinction, and builds a large-scale argument dealing with questions of both value and meaning.

This book explores the different conceptions of reality in the various interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, demonstrating the intimate connection to philosophy of physics.