Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

La filosofía de la redención es la obra capital de Philipp Mainländer, autodidacta, pensador y mitopoeta alemán del siglo xix.

This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms.

This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms.

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

This book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology.

This book is the first volume featuring the work of American women philosophers in the first half of the twentieth century.

This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.

This book defends an event-causal theory of libertarian free will and argues that the belief in such free will plays an important, if not essential, role in supporting certain important values.

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing.

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars.

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing.

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary papers on Greek philosophy from an international group of scholars.

This book provides a framework that encompasses both physics and cognitive science - integrating them into a 'theory of everything' to establish a basis for both our scientific and humanistic endeavours.

This Element explores the metaphysical enterprise of truthmaking, which studies how truth depends upon ontology.

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject.

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject.

Dieses eBook: "Träume eines Geistersehers, erläutert durch Träume der Metaphysik" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

In den Nachrufen auf Heidegger konnte man immer wieder lesen, die Lehre dieses großen Philosophen sei, trotz seines politischen Fehltritts von 1933, nicht nationalsozialistisch gewesen.

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

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

In this sequel to Outgrowing Materialism, Thompson explores five conceptual "e;Worlds"e; that preceded the dualist v.

This Element explores the metaphysical enterprise of truthmaking, which studies how truth depends upon ontology.

In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives.

The idea of an ideological war between science and religion, Thompson argues, is founded on a mistake.

A comprehensive book on Plato''s Phaedo that reinterprets many famous Platonic ideas, in part by situating them in their context.

A comprehensive book on Plato''s Phaedo that reinterprets many famous Platonic ideas, in part by situating them in their context.

En el presente libro, Ricardo Laleff Ilieff produce una conjunción sorprendente: extrae psicoanálisis a partir de las luminosas fuentes de la ontología política.

Le parole anima e animo non hanno, sempre e comunque, lo stesso significato e nemmeno riguardano, in ogni caso, le medesime sfere – umana e divina.

This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy.

This volume brings Bergson's key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time in science, across analytic and continental philosophy.

Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.

Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself.

Exploring Aristotle's concept of logos, this volume advances our understanding of it as a singular feature of human nature by arguing that it is the organizing principle of human life itself.

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.

This book collects original essays on the epistemology of modality and related issues in modal metaphysics and philosophical methodology.

This book develops a novel theory of intentionality.

Dieser Essay stellt sich den grundlegendsten Fragen der Philosophie: der Frage nach dem Ursprung des Seins überhaupt, vor allem aber der Frage nach der Entstehung des Endlichen, weshalb wir dieses für unsere »Natur« halten und wie wir diesen Glauben aufbrechen können.

With the words, Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are.

This volume explores the unity of logic, epistemology and ontology in Hegel's dialectic and the interrelation among the three, thereby revealing the internal features of Hegel's dialectic as well as the connection and divergence between Hegel's and Marx's philosophical thought.

This volume explores the unity of logic, epistemology and ontology in Hegel's dialectic and the interrelation among the three, thereby revealing the internal features of Hegel's dialectic as well as the connection and divergence between Hegel's and Marx's philosophical thought.

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

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

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today's 24/7 culture.

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist.

This book takes up the question of whether past and future events exist.

Models of Time and Space from Astrophysics and World Cultures explores how our conceptions of time, space, and the physical universe have evolved across cultures throughout the centuries.

Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion.

In this novel re-examination of the archetype construct, philosopher Jon Mills and psychiatrist Erik Goodwyn engage in spirited dialogue on the origins, nature, and scope of what archetypes actually constitute, their relation to the greater questions of psyche and worldhood, and their relevance for Jungian studies and analytical psychology today.