Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science.

La Humanidad ha tocado a su fin y, con el ascenso de los Póstumos, se ha producido el ingreso del orbe terrestre en el titanismo de una nueva Era signada por la tecnificación telemática universal.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

This book offers an ethical interpretation of the Critique of Pure Reason by establishing the historical connection between the problematic of Temporality in the philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas on the one hand, and the ground-laying of metaphysics in the schematism of Kant's critical philosophy on the other.

Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science.

In this awaited follow up to his book Faithful Reason, the well-known philosopher and Catholic thinker John Haldane brings his unrivalled insight to bear on questions of the existence of God and the nature and destiny of the human soul.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

This volume is a collection of papers that advance our understanding of the metaphysics of powers - properties such as fragility and electric charge.

Freedom of the Will provides a novel interpretation of G.

The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought.

Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis.

Paul Newman and Karampal Singh speak to us from the higher planes about karma, a fundamental concept that is frequently misunderstood.

Personal growth is a slow process, so slow that most people are unaware of the fact that, fundamentally, we do change several times during our lives.

The VANISHMENT describes a fictional account of a modern day visitation by the late great Jesus Christ.

Have you ever asked yourself why human beings are compelled to agree?

This publication consists of a series of short notes I previously posted on Facebook.

Five Questions attempts to answer some of lifes most basic and profound philosophic questions utilizing a holistic approach.

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

This book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being.

Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being.

The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of "e;reality"e; is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud.

This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold.

Let's break down physics into interesting bits and pieces so that kids would be encouraged to actually like the subject.

The Real Meaning of Life wasn't written by an expert.

Physics helps us learn how the world around us works.

Time, velocity, speed and all kinds of energy will be discussed in this educational book for kids.

Everyone has had luminous moments - those instances when we experience the beauty and grace of life, whether we're looking into the eyes of a newborn or watching the sun set over the ocean.

Dazzlingly original but deeply engaged with the philosophical currents of her time, Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was one of the most ingenious and exciting philosophers of the seventeenth century.

Modern Protestant theology has tended to shun metaphysics.

This fourth volume traces the history of Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism, covering Descartes and the birth of modern philosophy.

This textbook offers a reasoned and accessible introduction to the philosophy of the environment and the current environmental crisis, designed for scholars and students in both philosophy and the natural and environmental sciences.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

For courses in 20th-century Philosophy, recent Continental Philosophy, Anglo-American Philosophy; as part of courses in Contemporary Philosophy; or courses on Epistemology or Metaphysics that take a historical approach.

For someone whose influence has been so profound on Western thinking remarkably little is known of the Greek philosopher and thinker Plato.

Nearly everyone has brief moments of exalting contact with his or her own divine Soul: this book shows how to make the most of those moments; how to recognize, develop, test, and follow through on intuitions; how to contact the source of inspiration and make its vitalizing power a continuous presence.

Examining the relationship between perception and events, this highly significant volume contributes several important ideas to the "e;bridge"e; between modern science and perennial wisdom teachings.

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

This volume stresses the importance of veneration for the source of Life at all levels of human development.

This tenth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton presents, in-depth, the fifteenth major section in the personal notebooks Dr.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

Part 1, Human Experience, examines the spiritual lessons implicit in daily living, the need for educational reforms, the causes and purposes of personal suffering, special problems and opportunities of youth and age, problems of marriage and relationship, and how to convert contemporary crises into opportunities for dramatic spiritual growth.

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

This fifth volume in The Notebooks of Paul Brunton is an in-depth presentation of the sixth and seventh major topics in the personal notebooks of Dr.

This volume offers a strong treatment of what enlightenment is and is not, and of the principles that underlie its arisal.

Part 1, Advanced Contemplation, offers a direct route to the deepest mystical states--yielding permanent results of a metaphysical, transpersonal, and universal nature.