Bertrand Russell famously quipped that he didn't believe in God for the same reason that he didn't believe in a teapot in orbit between the earth and Mars: it is a bizarre assertion for which no evidence can be provided.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's international thought anticipates many of the political dynamics that have arisen through globalization and great power competition.
Paul Katsafanas explores how we might justify normative claims as diverse as 'murder is wrong' and 'agents have reason to take the means to their ends.
The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Johann Gottfried Herder hat 1799, achtzehn Jahre nach dem Erscheinen der »Kritik der reinen Vernunft«, eine umfangreiche und scharfe Kritik von Kants theoretischem Hauptwerk verfasst.
Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification.
In der 1970 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden.
Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about.
Rainer Enskat: Die Form der Dialektik in Hegels Phänomenologie des GeistesAbstract:In his Phenomenology of Spirit Hegel has – in comparison with the enormouscomplexity of the whole work – in a somewhat hidden way hinted at the formal nucleus of whathe conceives of as dialectic, especially as the dialectical movement.
Der 1763 erschienene »Beweisgrund« ist ein herausragendes Werk der Philosophie: Es markiert nicht nur den Höhepunkt der vorkritischen Philosophie Kants, sondern zugleich derjenigen Art ›dogmatischer‹ Metaphysik, gegen die sich der Philosoph später so entschieden wenden wird, die er aber 1763 noch glaubt konsolidieren zu können.
Embodiment--defined as having, being in, or being associated with a body--is a feature of the existence of many entities, perhaps even of all entities.
Whitehead's Philosophical Development: A Critical History of the Background of Process and Reality by Nathaniel Lawrence offers the first systematic map of Alfred North Whitehead's intellectual trajectory, culminating in his famously difficult Gifford Lectures.
Numerous thinkers have considered the Principle of Non-Contradiction, but none has clearly identified its inherent limitation: that it is itself only a formal principle.
Offers a systematic presentation of Plato''s late cosmology, showing connections to his ethics and arguments about the organic structure of the universe.
Die Anfänge der westlichen Philosophie sind eng mit den Vor-Sokratikern verbunden, die in einer Zeit tiefgreifender Umbrüche und neuer Denkansätze lebten.
Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity.
Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or `thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes.
This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines.
