Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology

The content of the volume is divided as follows: after presenting two rival approaches to substantiality and causality: a traditional (ontological) view vs.

What constitutes personhood?

A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers.

Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre's updated and substantially revised fourth edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction.

Provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus.

Die Frage nach den Weltbildern als einer fundamentalen Kategorie von Weltwahrnehmung wird in den Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften seit langer Zeit diskutiert.

This book presents a systematic discussion of the development of Husserl's concept of the a priori from his early and through his later writings.

The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical character of contemporary science.

It has rarely been recognized that the Christian writers of the first millennium pursued an ambitious and exciting philosophical project alongside their engagement in the doctrinal controversies of their age.

This book has two aims; first, to provide a new account of time's arrow in light of relativity theory; second, to explain how God, being eternal, relates to our world, marked as it is by change and time.

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

Normative ethical theories generally purport to be explanatory--to tell us not just what is good, or what conduct is right, but why.

This book examines what is living and dead in the social philosophy of Theodor W.

Ernest Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with issues of epistemic evaluation.

This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self.

This book approaches the subject of African metaphysics historically as it connects Ancient Egypt to Yoruba.

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions.

This book focuses on the importance of an ontological dimension for today's higher education, with critical attention to implications for the student experience, engagement, satisfaction, wellbeing, employability, (dis)embodiment and activism in which students take a stand on their own being and becoming.

The rule-following debate, in its concern with the metaphysics and epistemology of linguistic meaning and mental content, goes to the heart of the most fundamental questions of contemporary philosophy of mind and language.

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

This book approaches the subject of African metaphysics historically as it connects Ancient Egypt to Yoruba.

This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier.

In this revised and updated edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in all philosophy: David Hume's work on causation.

Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term.

A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes is essential for understanding modern thought, and a necessary entree to the work of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant.

Hoffentlich gefällt diese Arbeit Hans Barth, Lübbe, N oack, Andersch ebensogut wie meine bisherigen Versuche.

Whilst he broaches the theme of the difference between the sexes, Hegel does not go deep enough into the question of their mutual desire as a crucial stage in our becoming truly human.

Philosophers have long been tempted by the idea that objects and properties are abstractions from the facts.

This study addresses a central theme in current philosophy: Platonism vs Naturalism and provides accounts of both approaches to mathematics, crucially discussing Quine, Maddy, Kitcher, Lakoff, Colyvan, and many others.

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Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom.

This book provides a detailed reconstruction of the origins of Schopenhauer's philosophy and its inherent aporias.

*; Shows how the revelations emerging from quantum physics can wake us up from the disempowering spell of the scientific materialist worldview and help dispel the collective madness that has befallen our species*; Explains for readers with no physics background why quantum physics is, in the words of Albert Einstein, so ';uncommonly important' that ';it should be everyone's concern'*; Shows how quantum physics can help us awaken to the malleable, dreamlike nature of reality, a realization that unlocks the creative spirit within usExplaining the world-transforming effects of quantum physics, Paul Levy shows how discoveries in this fieldwidely considered the greatest in the history of sciencecan wake us up from the disempowering spell of the reductionist, materialist worldview, thereby helping to dispel the collective madness that has befallen our species.

John Keller presents a set of new essays on ontology, time, freedom, God, and philosophical method.

Actuality, Possibility and Worlds is an exploration of the Aristotelian account that sees possibilities as grounded in causal powers.

At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position.

The chapters in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn.

The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy is an outstanding reference source for the wide range of philosophical contributions made by women writing in Europe from about 1560 to 1780.

The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts.

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 collection of original essays aims to reinvigorate the debate surrounding philosophical realism in relation to philosophy of science, pragmatism, epistemology, and theory of perception.

Ernest Sosa extends his distinctive approach to epistemology, intertwining issues concerning the role of the will in judgment and belief with issues of epistemic evaluation.

John Dewey was the foremost philosophical figure and public intellectual in early to mid-twentieth century America.

Philosophers increasingly engage in practical work with other disciplines and the world at large.

What does Heidegger's controversial notion of the Event mean?