Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

In this essay, Monaghan argues for an account of property possession as strict, numerical identity.

A powerful seven-week program for creating the life of your dreams Are you living the life you've always dreamed of, or have you settled for being less than truly happy?

Does the figure of Christ provide philosophical reason with its ultimate philosophical challenge?

In this new kind of entree to contemporary discussions of free will and human agency, Garrett Pendergraft collects and illuminates 50 of the most relevant puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments.

Almost no systematic theorizing is generality-free.

Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of nature.

In Nietzsche's Search for Philosophy: On the Middle Writings Keith Ansell-Pearson makes a novel and thought-provoking contribution to our appreciation of Nietzsche's neglected middle writings.

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Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in terms of the relation of human language and thought, on the one hand, and the world described by physics on the other.

Morality has traditionally been understood to be tied to certain metaphysical beliefs: notably, in the freedom of human persons (to choose right or wrong courses of action), in a god (or gods) who serve(s) as judge(s) of moral character, and in an afterlife as the locus of a "e;final judgment"e; on individual behavior.

It is widely known that Buddhists deny the existence of the self.

Mit seiner ontologisch-erkenntnistheoretischen Programmschrift verfolgt Meinong (1853-1920) das Ziel, der gegenstandstheoretischen "Betrachtungsweise durch Darlegung ihrer Eigenart zu ausdrücklicher Anerkennung zu verhelfen" und ihr "die neue Position einer eigenen und namentlich der Psychologie gegenüber selbständigen philosophischen Disziplin zu sichern.

This 2007 volume contains all of Kant''s major writings on human nature.

Given the pain, discomfort, anxiety, heartbreak, and boredom that most humans experience in their lives, is it morally permissible to create them?

This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades.

This book is an important study in the philosophy of the mind; drawing on the work of philosopher Wilfrid Sellars and the theory of critical realism to develop a novel argument for understanding perception and metaphysics.

In this compendium of essays, some of the world's leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline.

The volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs; the relative epistemic import of veridical and non-veridical perceptual experiences; the relation between experience and knowledge; and the nature of experience in view of its epistemic linkages to discursive contents.

The eleventh volume in the Notebooks of Paul Brunton is a timely, informed evaluation of mysticism, paranormal experience, sects and cults.

This volume explores the connections between Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of natural law and contemporary social thought.

Borders enclose and separate us.

This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM).

Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations.

Most research on perception has focused on the perceptual experience of three-dimensional, solid, bounded, and coherent material objects - items like tables and tomatoes.

We must all make choices about how we want to live.

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Brings Plato''s ideas to life, proposing new interpretations of major elements including the cosmic ''beginning'' and the Atlantis story.

Der vierte Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält die deutsche Übersetzung der Politik.

This book, based on ethnographic research in Romania, traces the ontological red lines that form a world in which xenophobic landscapes are possible.

This book presents a systematic discussion of the development of Husserl's concept of the a priori from his early and through his later writings.

Are we made entirely of matter, like sticks and stones?

Many results of modern physics--those of quantum mechanics, for instance--come in a probabilistic guise.

The questions that surround death--Is death a harm to the person who dies?

Part 1, Healing of the Self, explores fundamental principles of healing.

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking.

Metaphysics is what Aristotle described as "e;the First Philosophy"e; or "e;first science,"e; a comprehensive inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality.

Perception and intuition are our basic sources of knowledge about the concrete world around us, and more abstract matters such as mathematics, metaphysics, and morality.

God and fictional objects are central topics within philosophy, but rarely do the respective discussions overlap.

Explores the relationship between self-knowledge, individuality, and personal development by reconstructing Kant''s account of personhood.

First published in 1931, A Study in the Philosophy of Malebranche examines the theories which constitute the philosophical system of Malebranche.

Die Studie wirft neues Licht auf den Wahrheitsbegriff in Sein und Zeit.

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted.

Part 1, Practices for the Quest, goes to the heart of various disciplines, exercises, and techniques that are useful at various stages of spiritual self-discovery and self-development.