Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

The current volume is comparative and inter-disciplinary, and it provides a reflection on what thinking might become after Heidegger's philosophy.

During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played a decisive role in St.

The following study on Ti1lich's theology is based on a doctoral dissertation, presented to the Ludwig-Maximilian University at Munich in December, 1967.

"Allerdings, das ist eine grosse Frage, der ich zu sehr ausgewichen bin, die Evidenz des Ich als ein Identisches, das also doch nicht in dem Bündel bestehen kann.

John Dewey ranks as the most influential of America's philosophers.

Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century.

he present volume is part of a larger project, which is the attempt to draft a T coherent doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.

Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives.

Despite the importance of Leibniz's mature philosophy, his early work has been relatively neglected.

he present book and its companion volume The Tensed Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate what one recent discussant has called "e;the most fundamental question in the philosophy of time,"e; namely, "e;whether a static or a dynamic conception ofthe world is correct.

Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations.

When down from the moon stepped the goddess of the night, she bid Minerva/Athene come to her.

The Philosophy of Time Society grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on the Philosophy of Time offered by George Schlesinger in 1991.

This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge.

The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world.

vii 1 ~OOUCTIONANOOVERVlliW 1 2 SEITING THE STAGE: PERSONAL IDENTITY ANO THE MErAPHYSICS OFMIND 1.

Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment!

There are in this volume sentences written as long ago/ as 1957.

Featuring the Gestalt Model and the Perspectivist conception of science, this book is unique in its non-relativistic development of the idea that successive scientific theories are logically incommensurable.

Salomon Maimon (1753-1800), one of the most fascinating characters of eighteenth-century intellectual history, came from a traditional orthodox Jewish community in Eastern Europe to Berlin to seek Enlightenment.

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Australia and New Zealand boast an active community of scholars working in the field of history, philosophy and social studies of science.

2 first-person point of view, I acknowledge these possible handicaps and try to overcome them.

One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism.

Many of the contributions to this volume are based on research originally presented at the historic first meeting in the United States of Japanese and American phenomenologists that took place at Seattle University in the Summer of 1991.

Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998.

Medicine's crucial concern with health is perennial, but its reflection, concepts, means change with the advance of science and social life.

The act of thought-thought as an act-would precede the thought thinking or becoming conscious of an act.

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers.

This book is based on my doctoral dissertation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996) of the same title.

In this well-researched, comprehensive study of J.

Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics?

This collection of essays presents a systematic and up-to-date survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's philosophy, tracing the general humanistic leitmotiv to be found in his vast, varied output.

Phenomenology, according to Husserl, is meant to be philosophy as rigorous science.

James F.

Burtt's book, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, is something of a puzzle within the context of twentieth-century intellectual history, especially American intellectual history.

The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999.

This study is a revised version ofa book, published in February 1990 under the same title, as my Ph.

Although Descartes' natural philosophy marked an advance in the development of modern science, many critics over the years, such as Newton, have rejected his particular `relational' theory of space and motion.

The world was first introduced to the expertise and originality of Japanese scholars in phenomenology in Analecta Husserliana Vol.

hose who think about time are thinking deeply.

How, if at all, can we do moral philosophy in the light of the radical critique made by Elizabeth Anscombe in "e;Modem Moral Philosophy"e;?

Natural and social sciences seem very often, though usually only implicitly, to hedge their laws by ceteris paribus clauses - a practice which is philosophically very hard to understand because such clauses seem to render the laws trivial and unfalsifiable.