Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

Jean-Yves Lacoste is one of the best known French philosophers alive today.

Business Ethics: Japan and the Global Economy presents a multicultural perspective of global business ethics with special emphasis on Japanese viewpoints.

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construct sound theories.

The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events.

Alain Badiou has claimed that Quentin Meillassoux's book After Finitude (Bloomsbury, 2008) opened up a new path in the history of philosophy.

This work celebrates the investigative power of phenomenology to explore the phenomenological sense of space and time in conjunction with the phenomenology of intentionality, the invisible, the sacred, and the mystical.

Life-philosophy, central to 19th-century philosophical thought, is concerned with the meaning, value and purpose of life.

Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric.

In the first book to examine the overlooked relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation?

Although there are various `religious' traces in Heidegger's philosophy, little effort has been made to show the systematic import which his thinking has for outlining a full range of religious and theological questions.

Experimental Philosophy: Volume 2 contains fourteen articles -- thirteen previously published and one new -- that reflect the fast-moving changes in the field over the last five years.

The concept of emergence has seen a significant resurgence in philosophy and the sciences, yet debates regarding emergentist and reductionist visions of the natural world continue to be hampered by imprecision or ambiguity.

This book approaches humanism in the new era in China by discussing the nature of value philosophy and by analyzing in depth the significance of value research for China's modernization and future development.

Dan Zahavi offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of central and contested aspects of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology.

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries.

The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truthOn April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time.

In this work I have endeavoured to see Berkeley in his contemporary setting.

'This is an outline of a coherence theory of law.

Some of philosophy's biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong?

Bertrand Russell's study of the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz is one of his earliest books, providing a fascinating glimpse of his philosophical brilliance.

Praxiology: An introduction to the Sciences of Efficient Action deals with the general theory of achieving efficient actions.

This book provides a new philosophical fictionalism to solve traditional paradoxes and puzzles in the philosophy of language and metaphysics.

Der fünfte Band der Philosophischen Schriften enthält die deutsche Übersetzung der Metaphysik.

Science has multiple goals: to describe the world, as it is now; to predict the future and to make inferences about the past.

This Handbook brings together philosophical work on how language shapes, and is shaped by, social and political factors.

Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences.

Medieval debates over "e;divine creation"e; are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "e;Intelligent Design"e; Creationists and Evolutionists.

This is the only commentary on Aristotle's theological work, Metaphysics, Book 12, to survive from the first six centuries CE – the heyday of ancient Greek commentary on Aristotle.

What sorts of material objects are there?

Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten aus dem Jahr 1785 stellt einen der wichtigsten und einflussreichsten Texte der gesamten Philosophiegeschichte dar.

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

This book is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers.

Analyses the ongoing scientific debates surrounding reduction and emergence, arguing that these debates are empirically resolvable.

Winner of the Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize as announced at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Meeting on September 27, 2024 The book offers a systematic reconstruction of the disagreement between Husserl and Heidegger from the former's perspective, but without falling into any form of Husserlian apologetics.

In diesem Buch geht es darum, Mitmenschen, die in große seelische oder auch körperlche Not geraten sind, eine Perspektive aufzuzeigen, mittels derer sie diese Not in eine große Hoffnung auf ein von unbeschreiblicher Freude erfülltes Leben verwandeln können.

For centuries, Dzogchen - a special meditative practice to achieve spontaneous enlightenment - has been misinterpreted by both critics and malinformed meditators as being purely mystical and anti-rational.

Plato's dialogue The Statesman has often been found structurally puzzling by commentators because of its apparent diffuseness and disjointed transitions.

This volume provides a clear, rigorous translation of one of the most important works of Platonic philosophy from late antiquity.

The Sublime in Schopenhauer's Philosophy transforms our understanding of Schopenhauer's aesthetics and anthropology.