Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This is the first book that provides access to twelve Continental philosophers and the consequences of their thinking for the philosophy of religion.

The present volume contains many of the papers presented at a four-day conference held by the Husserl-Archives in Leuven in April 2009 to c- memorate the one hundred and ?

The volume includes twenty-five research papers presented as gifts to John L.

For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century, taught at the Coll ge de France.

This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.

This volume congregates articles of leading philosophers about potentials and potentiality in all areas of philosophy and the empirical sciences in which they play a relevant role.

This Element adapts Aristotle''s ancient doctrine of hylomorphism for contemporary philosophy of biology to explain the unity of living organisms.

The Holy Science was written by Sri Yukteswar at the behest of Mahavatar Babaji.

This book is an updated and revised edition of Fundamentals of Legal Argumentation published in 1999.

Poems are the art of the heart.

It was an unforgettable journey.

Insights developed in the past two decades by philosophers of the social sciences can serve to enrich the challenging intellectual tasks of conceptualizing, investigating, and representing the human past.

Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality.

This key collection of essays sheds new light on long-debated controversies surrounding Kant's doctrine of idealism and is the first book in the English language that is exclusively dedicated to the subject.

Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality's essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense.

Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of 'what there is'.

Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of 'what there is'.

This book is about Transparent Intensional Logic, the brainchild of Pavel Tichy.

This work presents and philosophically analyzes the early modern and modern history of the theory concerning the soul of the world, anima mundi.

Building upon Husserl's challenge to oppositions such as those between form and content and between constituting and constituted, The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology construes activity and passivity not as reciprocally exclusive terms but as mutually dependent moments of acts of consciousness.

The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff.

Infinite regress arguments are part of a philosopher's tool kit of argumentation.

Singular reference to ourselves and the ordinary objects surrounding us is a most crucial philosophical topic, for it looms large in any attempt to understand how language and mind connect to the world.

The present volume is a continuation of the series Contemporary Philosophy.

With some exceptions, there is not a real interest in Islamic philosophy and t- ology in Western institutions today.

I have been thinking about the philosophical issue of truth for more than two decades.

Culture and Cultural Entities provides an original philosophical analysis of the nature and explanation of cultural phenomena, with special attention to ontology and methodology.

Collective Intentionality is a relatively new label for a basic social fact: the sharing of attitudes such as intentions, beliefs and emotions.

Over the last few decades information and communication technology has come to play an increasingly prominent role in our dealings with other people.

Drawing on the results of his own scholarly research as well as that of others the author offers, for the first time, a comprehensive and documented history of theories of the atom from Democritus to the twentieth century.

Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida.

A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness.

Since ancient times, metaphysical theories have been shaped by the dialectical relations between metaphysical positions.

The general topic of this book is the metaphysics of the subject in Kantian transcendental philosophy.

Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience.

Mereology is the theory which deals with parts and wholes in the concrete sense, and this study follows its varied fortunes during the Middle Ages.

Die Philosophie des Barockscotismus war einerseits durch die rückwärtsgewandte Anknüpfung an den mittelalterlichen Denker Johannes Duns Scotus, andererseits durch die Anknüpfung an die Entwicklung in der zeitgenössischen Scholastik, vor allem der Jesuitenscholastik, geprägt.

Las palabras ánima y ánimo no tienen, siempre y en todo caso, el mismo significado ni tampoco pertenecen siempre a las mismas esferas: la humana y la divina.

This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.

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Sovint el més difícil de veure i de dir és allò que resulta obvi.

Sovint el més difícil de veure i de dir és allò que resulta obvi.

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Este ensayo clásico de Zubiri constituye una de las mejores introducciones a su filosofía.

"La filosofía, más que ninguna otra disciplina, necesita ser vivida", escribe García Morente al inicio de estas lecciones, refiriéndose a la falta de sentido de dar una definición de filosofía sin haberla "explorado" antes como una vivencia.

"La filosofía, más que ninguna otra disciplina, necesita ser vivida", escribe García Morente al inicio de estas lecciones, refiriéndose a la falta de sentido de dar una definición de filosofía sin haberla "explorado" antes como una vivencia.

'Richard Rorty: una alternativa a la metafísica occidental' de José Antonio García-Lorente es principalmente una reconstrucción atenta y cuidadosa de la filosofía de Richard Rorty y, en particular, de su crítica a la verdad y a la metafísica.

Filosofo hungaro, politico y critico literario, Gyorgy Lukacs (1885-1971) es considerado uno de los intelectuales marxistas mas influyentes del siglo pasado.

Desde hace unas decadas la filosofia vive hechizada bajo el encanto del giro linguistico, que a la vez fue fruto de su propia evolucion interna y fiel reflejo de la tendencia al verbalismo, que siempre ha sido uno de sus pecados capitales.

Numerosos documentos muestran hasta qué punto el pensamiento heideggeriano se imbrica con la visión del mundo –la Weltanschauung– del nazismo.