Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

This volume investigates what is beyond the Principle of Non-Contradiction.

Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction examines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe's C.

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research.

This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant's development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781.

According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties - often called 'powers' - by means of which they are sources of change.

This book is a critical re-evaluation of Jean-Paul Sartre's phenomenological ontology, in which a theory of egological complicity and self-deception informing his later better known theory of bad faith is developed.

This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza.

This book uses the concepts of freedom, indeterminism, and fallibilism to solve, in a unified way, problems of free will, knowledge, reasoning, rationality, personhood, ethics and politics.

The future of public space is uncertain.

Outline of Theoretical Psychology discusses basic philosophical problems in the discipline and profession of psychology.

The problem of the nature of fiction and the problem of nonexistence are closely tied because fiction often talks about nonexistent entities.

Critics and artists (including performing artists) claim the title of 'interpreter' for themselves.

This book breathes new life into the study of liminal experiences of transition and transformation, or 'becoming'.

How to live meaningfully in the face of the unknowableWe human beings had no say in existing-we just opened our eyes and found ourselves here.

Human life is conducted within a network of social relations, social groups, and societies.

Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most important works in modern moral philosophy.

An innovative reassessment of philosopher P.

Hailed by the Washington Post as "e;a sure-footed and witty guide to slippery ethical terrain,"e; a philosophical exploration of AI and the future of the mind that Astronomer Royal Martin Rees calls "e;profound and entertaining"e;Humans may not be Earth's most intelligent beings for much longer: the world champions of chess, Go, and Jeopardy!

How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities-demons-to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world.

Der Inhalt dieses Büchleins ist gedacht als VADEMECUM für Menschen, die sich nach der innigen Vereinigung mit Gott sehnen und gerne ein Büchlein hätten, das ihnen hilft, den praktischen Weg dorthin zu beschreiten und im täglichen Gebetsleben den liebenden Kontakt mit Gott zu pflegen.

No one who reads this book will ever again think of his or her own death in the same way.

The Secret Source reveals the actual occult doctrines that gave birth to The Law of Attraction and later inspired the media phenomenon known as The Secret.

In Admirable Evasions, Theodore Dalrymple explains why human self-understanding has not been bettered by the false promises of the different schools of psychological thought.

John Searles The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Sotos The Mystery of Capitalshifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken for granted in developed nations.

Throughout this book, Louis Roy illustrates his conviction that Christianity consists in the most profound experience to which human beings are invited by God.

If we see ourselves as Earth rather than Earth as existing for us our perspective is transformed.

Metaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader.

Is God a superfluous hypothesis for modern cosmology?

What do we mean when we say that something is?

The culmination of a lifetime's preoccupation with crucial human concerns too often curiously marginalized by the history of philosophy, The Expansion of Metaphysics sheds new light on freedom and the will by making the phenomenon of novelty philosophically intelligible.

Possibility is a concept central to both philosophy and social theory.

Ce livre contient les Discours que l'Archange Michel a prononcés entre 1950 et 1960 devant un Groupe choisi d'Étudiants américains.

L'ÉLÉMENTAL CORPORELQuand l'être humain est descendu sur Terre après avoir passé à travers les Sept Sphères, son Créateur lui a attribué non seulement un " Ange Gardien " mais aussi un ,emtor physique, un " Élémental Corporel ".

This book studies the methodological revolution that has resulted in economists' mathematical market models being exported across the social sciences.

The volume offers a lively and wide-ranging debate on the major questions of perceptual epistemology, including how perceptual experiences can bestow positive epistemic standing to empirical judgments and beliefs; the relative epistemic import of veridical and non-veridical perceptual experiences; the relation between experience and knowledge; and the nature of experience in view of its epistemic linkages to discursive contents.

The Routledge Guidebook to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is an engaging introduction to this rich and provocative philosophical text.

In 'Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde' taucht der Leser in die philosophische Welt von Arthur Schopenhauer ein.

This book considers Wilfrid Sellars engagement with Kantian philosophya "e;both theoretical and practicala "e;in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.

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

Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Der Andere"e; verfugbar.

Die These dieses Buches lautet, dass es in diesem Zeitalter erstmalig möglich ist, objektiv überzeugende Antworten auf die großen philosophischen Lebensfragen zu erhalten.

Veredas, andanzas: aconteSer hermenéutico Dos se presenta como una continuación de las exploraciones filosóficas iniciadas en el libro Hermenéutica del aconteSer, ofreciendo nuevas rutas de reflexión sobre el ser, el tiempo y el conocimiento.

Dieses eBook: "Philosophische Begründung der Psychologie und der Geisteswissenschaften" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Philosophers, theologians, physicists, and psychologists join their efforts to reflect on the crucial issues of limit and infinity, time and eternity, empty space and material space.

A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one that has vexed generations of thinkers and artists.

Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "e;egocentric presentism,"e; a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view.

This edited collection is the first volume solely dedicated to research on Johann Gottfried Herder's understanding of history, time, and temporalities.