Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Sensationally unveils the long, secretive collaboration between arch-occultist Aleister Crowley and British Intelligence.

In Nietzsche and Friendship, Willow Verkerk provides a new and provocative account of Nietzsche's philosophy which identifies him as an agonistic thinker concerned with the topics of love and friendship.

Ellis shows that realistic theories of quantum mechanics, time, causality and human freedom - all problematic areas for the acceptance of scientific realism - can be developed satisfactorily.

Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is well-known for his introspective turn away from sensible bodies and toward non-sensory ideas of mind, body, and God.

It is one thing to understand theoretically how we build our reality (Part 1 of the trilogy), but something very different to step out of "e;consensus reality,"e; stop the world and enter a completely different one.

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither.

How do we get an idea from the physical world?

This book develops a new metaphysical framework in which time is motion through a higher dimension.

More than two hundred years after the publication of his seminal The World as Will and Representation, Arthur Schopenhauer's influence is still felt in philosophy and beyond.

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger's philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan's post-Freudian metapsychology.

This book provides the Latin text and its annotated English translation of the question-commentary of John Buridan (ca.

Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems.

New Directions in Consciousness Studies describes a range of fresh ideas which promise to significantly advance scientific understanding of human nature.

God: Why This Evil?

Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of Time, synthesizing them for a new generation of scholars.

Jennifer Trusted's new book argues that metaphysical beliefs are essential for scientific inquiry.

Introductory logic is generally taught as a straightforward technical discipline.

Aristotle's
Metaphysics is an extremely rich and important philosophical work that
continues to inspire reflection and debate.

The development of science, logic, mathematics, and psychology in the 19th century made it necessary to introduce a growing number of new entities, of which classical empiricism and strong extensionalism were unable to give a wholly satisfying account.

Making Time grapples with a range of issues that have crystallized in the wake of 15 years of discussion on time in archaeology, since the author's seminal volume The Archaeology of Time, synthesizing them for a new generation of scholars.

Peter Strawson (1919-2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970.

This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics.

This book examines the so-called hiddenness argument of the Canadian philosopher John L.

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

Oxford Studies in Metaphysics is a major new series dedicated to the timely publication of new work in this highly fertile field of philosophy.

SAINT JOAN OF NEW YORK is a novel about a math prodigy who becomes obsessed with discovering the Theory of Everything.

This book explores precisely how mathematics allows us to model and predict the behaviour of physical systems, to an amazing degree of accuracy.

There is a need for integrated thinking about causality, probability and mechanisms in scientific methodology.

We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge.

This book is a thorough analysis and discussion of the nature of time and eternity, focusing on the timelessness of God.

This anthology aims to present the fundamental philosophical issues and tools required by the reflection within and upon geography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) .

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

Despite the importance of Leibniz's mature philosophy, his early work has been relatively neglected.

Vagueness is the study of concepts that admit borderline cases: the property of being bald is vague because there are people who are neither definitely bald, nor definitely not bald.

Der zweite Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält mit der Topik und den Sophistischen Widerlegungen zwei Texte, die dem sogenannten Organon, also den logischen und methodischen Schriften des Aristoteles, zugerechnet werden.

Drawing on evidence from a wide range of classical Chinese texts, this book argues that xingershangxue, the study of "e;beyond form"e;, constitutes the core argument and intellectual foundation of Daoist philosophy.

This book identifies and expands upon the link between ontology and education, exposing a lack of ontological inquiry as the vital missing element in the study and practice of modern education today.

Wie kann eine systematische Betrachtung der Religion mit der Frage nach dem Menschen zusammengebracht werden, ohne dass es auf den klassischen Streit hinausläuft, ob der Mensch "von Natur aus" religiös sei oder nicht?