Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Exploring the critical potential of place in continental philosophy, Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought tests the political and ontological valences of this concept to go beyond the limits of existing geographical and phenomenological approaches.

Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts?

This book endeavors to fill the conceptual gap in theorizing about embodied cognition.

Thomas von Aquin ist 'der' Denker des Mittelalters, der die am längsten anhaltende Orientierung geboten, die intensivsten historischen Interessen auf sich gezogen und - neben seiner Bedeutung als Kirchenlehrer - für die vielfältigsten denkerischen Konzeptionen Pate gestanden hat und dessen Werk daher noch heute auf praktisch allen Feldern philosophischer Problemstellungen Anregungen zu geben vermag.

This provocative contribution to ethics and epistemology argues that virtue attributions are self-fulfilling prophecies.

Scientific realism is a central, long-standing, and hotly debated topic in philosophy of science.

The issue of whether humans are free to make their own decisions has long been debated, and it continues to be controversial today.

A study of the emergence in post-Kantian continental philosophy of a focus on the lived experience of temporality.

This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life.

Bioethics is the study of ethical issues arising out of advances in the life sciences and medicine.

Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use.

This book charts the evolution of metaphysics since Descartes and provides a compelling case for why metaphysics matters.

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An innovative reassessment of philosopher P.

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology?

Many philosophers have shown sympathy to the thought that reality is fundamentally positive.

Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom.

This book considers Wilfrid Sellars' engagement with Kantian philosophy-both theoretical and practical-in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.

Bridging the gap between the familiar figures of the history of philosophy and the technical approaches favoured by contemporary philosophers, The Bloomsbury Companion to Metaphysics introduces the key ideas and debates needed to understand analytic metaphysics.

Brute facts are facts that don't have explanations.

lt is with great pleasure that I write this preface for Or Li's book, wh ich addresses the venerable and vexing issues surrounding the problem of whether death can be a harm to the person who dies.

Numerous volumes have been written on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and new translations of his writings appear on a regular basis.

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

The self for Kant is something real, and yet is neither appearance nor thing in itself, but rather has some third status.

As philosophy departments attempt to define their unique value amid program closures in the humanities and the rise of interdisciplinary research, metaphilosophy has become an increasingly important area of inquiry.

This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective.

This volume presents fourteen original essays which explore the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, one of the UK's most influential contemporary philosophers.

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Science and its philosophical companion, Naturalism, represent reality in wholly nonpersonal terms.

Argues that ''flourishing'' means balancing one''s responsiveness to three normative claims: self-fulfilment, moral responsibility, and intersubjective answerability.

Nothing is not.

On the General Science of Mathematics is the third of four surviving works out of ten by Iamblichus (c.

Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible.

Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood.

How does our conception of possibility contribute to our understanding of self and world?

This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy.

This collection originated at a conference organized by the Institute Vienna Circle and the University of Vienna on the Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism and was held in Vienna in July 2001.

This book provides an analytical interpretation of Leibniz's 'Essais de Theodicee' with wide-ranging references to all his works.

Metaphysics, almost entirely neglected by experimental philosophers, is the central focus of Experimental Metaphysics.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism developed from Aristotle's metaphysics, making a new contribution to feminist theory.

The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts.

This fifth edition of Philosophy through Film uses recently released, well-received movies to explore answers to classic questions in philosophy in an approachable yet philosophically rigorous manner.

What is a stem cell?